If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.
Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.
There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
I hunt deer because they aren't capable of higher forms of thinking. All they care about is, 'What am I going to eat next, who am I going to screw next, and can I run fast enough to get away'. They are very much like the French in that way.
When you think about it, attention-deficit order makes a lot of sense. In this country there isn't a lot worth paying attention to.
Fashion is silly. Perhaps I should say fashion in general is silly. But then everything is, in general. If you talk about music in general, it's silly; about magazines, in general, they're silly.
I believe an artiste is a reflection of society. I write what I see. I am not a scholar, I am just an entertainer. I cannot change the way people think.
The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we’re watching, and dealing with.
If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.
The only intelligent way to discuss politics is on all fours.
The World Cup is like the Overlook Hotel: the identities of individual meat puppets might change, but the structure continues endlessly.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a delusional Housewife in possession of an audience must be in want of a ludicrous storyline.
Your own gown is most delicately suitable, both to the occasion and to yourself,' to be translated: Your gown is insipid and entirely forgettable. If you wear it on every other occasion this entire season, no one will notice or care.
For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.
That's stupid." "That's people.
The only thing an artist is useful for, and the only reason why we don't just line 'em up against the wall and shoot them, is because, at their best, they're the reflection of our lives, that most regular people can't even afford to think about.
Art is observing society around you, representing it through your eyes.
Children are the future, because mankind is moving more and more towards infancy.
The best kind of art or writing holds up a mirror to society.
The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don't want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film.
Fashion is very quick. It's very disposable. It's immediately - it tells you exactly where we are in our culture, especially women's fashion.
Over the epitaph of this generation it will say ENTERTAINED TO DEATH.
Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?"
