Tina Brown Quotes

Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information.

I think the relentless tide of celebrity stuff on the telly is getting pretty tedious.

I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.

The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those celebrities are more miserable than the people reading about them for escapism.

What happens is this sort of bleed-over from the tabloids across your movie work. You go to a movie, you only go once. But the tabloids and Internet are everywhere. You can really subsume the public image of somebody.

I actually am a Kardashian fan. But I found myself at a point where I started to become sick of it.

I think we know too much about actors as it is and their personal lives and it's this information age where we're stimulated constantly by the celebrity buzz effect or whatever it is, these web sites and blogs and different things.

We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.

In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they're no longer perceived as different - they've become human, so to speak.

When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.

Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?

We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.

There's this way pop culture has been rammed down our throats that people think that if they were just in the right place at the right time, they'd be married to Heidi Klum.

Everybody wants to be known. Everybody's a Kardashian.

I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are 'actors'.

There are certain people who prize celebrity over substance. That makes the media world go round. The media needs those people to exist.

Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen on the ordinary apprentice. That is probably the best indictment with our fascination with celebrity in our culture, which drives me crazy.

I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies.

There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.

A lot of the people that stop you - well, they're not nuts, exactly. They're more like super-fans. They think that I'm some sort of rich guy, that everyone in the movies is making the kind of money Angelina Jolie is making. They don't realize that most of my life has been a struggle.

The culture of celebrity has become insane. It's all based on fantasy, and I find it creepy and disturbing.

We're teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing.

Why is Kris Jenner a powerhouse? Because some part of us confuses fame and infamy, too. If she really bothered us half as much as we claim she does, we'd look away and stop feeding her empire.

Now with tabloids and seeing people walking around in sweats pumping gas you're like, 'Okay, they're just like us.'

The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.