Karla Souza Quotes

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.

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.

I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason, movies exist in a world where there's no pop culture.

I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.

Television has been very good to me. I grew up on it, and it had quite an impact on me. I'm entertaining opportunities that are coming my way.

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

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.

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.

Michael's the ultimate entertainer. After Michael Jackson, it's Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Bruce Lee.

MTV has always been about redefining itself.

I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done.

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

Sure, 'Twilight' is really huge right now and everybody's freaking out over it, but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I'm used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees.

There is always a new flavor of the month, especially in film.

There's nothing more American than movies.

Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would... make money.

Films have always been youth oriented.

I think that if Hollywood has a problem, it constantly underestimates the intelligence and integrity of fans.

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.

When you buy a ticket, you're basically voting for whatever you see.

I used to be able to pitch them on the basis of the zombie action, and I could hide the message inside that. Now, you can't. The moment you mention the word 'zombie,' it's got to be, 'Hey, Brad Pitt paid $400 million to do that.'

Television really has been responsible for everything that I've done successfully.

I feel like I'm changing pop culture.