Dina Merrill Quotes

I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses.

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

Films are the largest and most impactful medium.

Young audience, in the age group of 16-33 years, constitutes the main viewership of Bollywood films.

Nothing's really changed since the Harry Potter films came along.

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.

Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not.

'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

Well, I'm a consumer as well. I go to the movies with my popcorn and believe everything I see.

Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

Films are meant for the masses, for the purpose of entertainment.

We have been influenced by you in the U.S. a lot. Not because anybody exerted pressure on us - if anyone puts pressure on us, we go the other way. But if you put a movie in the cinema and I watch it, I will be influenced.

No one is bigger than cinema.

If you want to show cinema, make entertainment films. Sometimes they are very good, sometimes very bad, but the intention is always to make entertaining films.

The film industry is a great industry, with infinite possibilities for good and bad. Its primary purpose is to entertain people. On the side, it can do many other things. It can popularize certain ideals, it can make education palatable. But in the long run, the judge who decides whether what it does is good or bad is the man or woman who attends the movies.

I want to make movies that people see. I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do.

We typically make movies that are geared towards 18-year-olds. The people who pay and go to movies more than two or three times are usually under 22, so I get how it works. I don't really want 18-year-old boys to find me that attractive, that kind of would creep me out at this stage.

The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

Now because the film industry is what it is, if people are expecting a certain film genre and they're not getting it, there are howls of outrage.

Television is fickle, and it's fleeting.

As films are a mass medium, if more people love your work, it is better.

For me as an artist, pop culture has so much power and influences society on a regular basis - I see it in the kids; I see it in everyone that I encounter. Everyone is influenced by pop culture whether we want to be or not.

We're writing movies that people buy without thinking about it.

Film and TV are the most popular mediums in America. Literature and poetry are possibly the most under-recognized art forms.

'Vicky Donor' proved that the audience was waiting for well-scripted funny films.