Mindful Entertainment Quotes

I like movies as a viewer that challenge me to actually think rather than spoon feed everything to me.

I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted.

It's kind of a collaborative relationship. Westworld requires the investment of the people watching, and that's what I love about it. It changed my life. When I read the script, I was like, 'This is going to change the way I think about my own life. The way I see myself, the people around me, and the way I choose to exist.' That's what great material does. It transcends just being pop cultural entertainment, and actually involves the mind. It's really fun, and when I see the reactions and theories it makes me really excited. That's why I act.

Light shows are sort of a meditative kind of experience, you know. It is not like a shock.

Occasionally I'll have a slip, and I might watch 'RuPaul's Drag Race' or something. But for the most part, I am out on the reality shows.

I don't do guilt, but if I were to squint in that direction, it's probably enjoying simple computer games like Zuma. But I regard such things as part of my hand-eye coordination workout.

For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me.

I'm against escapist entertainment.

Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.

In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

I don't do that much telly because I want quality, not quantity - you've got to be happy with what you're putting out.

I do want my films to have the required entertainment quotient, but I'd prefer doing films where you don't have to leave your brains behind.