Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Gun control is not the answer. Culture control is the answer.

If I can be in a place where my image is encouraging people to see different people behind the camera, and my image and the images I make can help open up a certain world view, I think that's all a part of a larger spirit of change and progress, and I'm happy to be part of it.

How do we change as a culture, and how do we each individually take responsibility for the one piece of the solution that we are in charge of, and that is our own behavior?

There's this zeitgeist happening, and people are more open to 'Sorry to Bother You' being a hit with 'Get Out' being out there. But that zeitgeist is also happening because of the movements going back to Occupy and Black Lives Matter. Usually, film is years behind. It just so happens that, this time, everything is lining up.

What we need to do is open our eyes, smell the coffee and just understand what the society has become. Today, I can discuss many things with my 15-year-old son which I could not talk about with my father.

We live in an ever-changing global pop culture community.

Pop music follows the evolution of society in general: Everything moves faster.

It's a shame that ethnic minorities aren't getting a crack at different types of roles. There needs to be a bit of a change.

People like me in the entertainment industry can contribute to social change through our work.

At the end of the day, films mirror our society. It will take time for everybody to open up to this and accept it. They are not instantly going to sit up and change the way they think about it.

The concept of 'diversity' was this big moral 'should.' And now with the success of shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat,' 'Empire,' 'Blackish,' and 'Jane the Virgin,' it's become this big business 'must,' which is so great.

It takes more than a few generations to change a human nation. Those who are intent to bring (change) will do so.

The world was very feminine when I was young. And now it's very masculine.

Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces. Personal relations have given way to impersonal ones. The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control. The study of how it is to be done is the function of politics.

I like to think about society as being a flock of birds: There seems to be a common consciousness in different time periods, and the new common consciousness reacts to the old standards.

The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.

I don't think films in and of themselves create radical change, but I think a film can contribute to people's understanding and deepen their understanding and help contribute to a shift.

But a law, however venerable be the sanction, cannot suddenly transform the temper of the times . . .

I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in terms of transitions from one mode of life to another.

It's important to begin to even consider whether countries can become something that looks very different because people tend to take their countries for granted.

A transition from material want to meaning want is in progress on an historically unprecedented scale-involving hundreds of millions of people-and may eventually be recognized as the principal cultural development of our age.

A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.

Popular literature and culture used to reflect people's aspirations, pain, and passion. All those particular things are no longer available to us.

Baby boomers selling your rumors of their history, forcein' youth away from the truth of what's real today

I feel blessed in the knowledge that I probably belong to the last generation that will remember what we call "traditional America."