Timothy Harold Parks Quotes

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

The most stressful and difficult part of steering a large movie is that you are taking on the responsibility of communicating with a very wide audience. You can't ever hide behind the notion of, 'Okay, they just don't get it,' or, 'Certain people just don't get it.' You have to be mindful of the size of your audience, and you have to communicate in a way that lets them in.

When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.

When you run a campaign the idea is not to appeal to pundits but to appeal to people.

I write to the vulgar more than the learned.

In TV, in general, the more you try and please everybody, the less people you please.

The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.

I feel you lose your audience when you make movies for others and not for yourself or your people.

Of course, you have to think of the audience. You cannot make an obtuse film that only appeals to a small niche section of the audience.

I want to find a way to speak to the broadest audience possible.

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that we’re not making a picture for Harvard Law School, we’re making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.

You want the audience to get your movie, and you want the audience to like it. It's as simple as that. If they don't understand what you're trying to say, you've failed. Of course, you can't get 100 percent of the crowd to understand the movie, but you know when you've reached the people you want to reach.

Now we'd known each other for two years, the side of my calf was touching his shins, and his stomach was against my ribs. He said, "I don't think it's end of world to be my girlfriend." I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just one.

I feel myself the inheritor of a great background of people. Just who, precisely, they were, I have never known. I might be part Negro, might be part Jew, part Muslim, part Irish. So I can't afford to be supercilious about any group of people because I may be that people.

Why does the left protest and the right doesn't? The left is a hate group.

Enlightened groups can exist, as long as the individuals' sense of identity is not derived from a mentally defined image of us.

The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.

The broader your audience, the more people you have to appeal to.

I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification...It's these respectable people here who create those hooligans out there.

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.

I didn't become a commercially successful artist by design, and actually I think that commercially successful just means, if you analyse it, that a lot of people like you. It's become a dirty word, and I don't necessarily think it needs to be.

If you want to relate to a certain audience or generation, you have to speak their language. I truly believe that.

I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loath and despise the groups they identify or belong to.