Jim Fowler Quotes

The great work which is to be done is to change public opinion.

I'm a socially concerned citizen of India. I have strong views on issues of social and political relevance. But it's very difficult to voice it in an intelligent manner without it sounding contrived. Because people think you're saying or doing all this as a PR exercise, not from your heart.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.

It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions.

The tactics we were able to use in the 1960s, 1970s - let's have a campaign, mobilize everybody and, therefore, social pressure - stop littering, or stop spitting, or be courteous to one another: I am not sure that kind of approach will work anymore.

I was very engaged in my communities throughout college, but I never thought of it as political.

I really appreciate when people use their fame and their voice for more than just self-promotion, starting a dialogue about a topic or an issue much bigger than themselves.

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 could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.

In community work, you reach some people, but in writing, I can reach many more people, not only in exploring issues of domestic violence, but also by showing the importance of strong women in communities.

In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting awareness to action.

I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms.

'The Cosby Show' changed America's opinion on so many different topics and opened so many people's eyes, and so you really learned immediately the power of what you were doing, that there was a power in portraying a role, and you were made aware of the effect that it could have on people, so it does raise the bar.

When I started acting, I thought everything should be issue-based and that there should be a helpline at the end of every program.

Anytime you can be a part of something that hopefully tries to make a cultural contribution, I love the idea of that.

My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do good things. I can only awake them with my performance art and creativity.

I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.

I want to change the world. I want to be a part of culture. I want to help teach.

As a teenager I read a lot of books. Books with lots of scary trends, things like nuclear weapons and overpopulation and global diseases, and I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great to write stories that showed people these problems and that we could do something about them.'

I think that celebrities should never underestimate their power. I mean just to draw attention, because then people get involved on a personal level.