America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] - things that you probably shouldn't like.
You'll get a kid in Liberia wearing a Tupac T-shirt, and for us, that's zef. People try to say it's like trash, but it's not really trash. It's putting things together you think are cool.
The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.
The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them - as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.
You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman.
If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to trash.
I'm obsessed with trash TV. I love horrible TV. shows. It's the white trash in me, you know?
