Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.
I don't see why a book shouldn't be intellectually sound, entertaining, and fun to read. Historians who write academic history, which is unreadable, are basically wasting their time.
It's amazing how powerful a piece of work can be and how it can influence people and change. It's pretty interesting.
Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.
To be interesting, one has to provoke.
When I read Rush Limbaugh's 'The Way Things Ought to Be,' it was like a page-turning thriller to me. Every page was like some new revelation.
The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you, informs you, challenges you, entertains you, or changes you.
I want to upset people, I want to make people think, I want to keep people interested.
Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose.
I refuse to make films where the audience comes for consumption. I make films where you know you are also part of the process.
I don't think a film that has no effect on people or society is a good film.
I see my responsibility as to give people something they want to keep turning the pages of and giving people something to chew on, looking at some aspect of human nature that hadn't occurred to them recently.
I love piecing together intricate thoughts that people find compulsively readable and they can't put down.
An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.
My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
I try to write catchy hooks but, at the same time, things that mean something that will provoke thought.
If you aim to be controversial for the sake of it you'd end up with a very thin and meaningless show.
I think good kids TV has got to have layers. It has to have compelling characters that everyone loves, but you can't dumb it down.
Everyone has something interesting to say.
I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.
To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small.
Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story.
I used the imaginary kingdom not as a sentimentalized fairyland but as an opening wedge to express what I hoped would be some very hard truths.
It's awesome to see something like 'Inception', which is just mind-blowing and amazing, and it actually resonates with the audiences. I feel like that's rare.
Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.
