Huma Qureshi Quotes

I think cricket and cinema are two big entities in the country. If you are part of either, you are sorted.

Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.

In fact, I have never met anyone who didn't like Gargoyles.

It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon.

Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

People who are talking about banning IPL, they should think about many other things that are troubling the country. People who want to look after IPL will do.

In a very real sense, I represent pop culture in an iconic way. It's been very good to me, so anything I can do to help the fans to tumble along - it's good.

It's nice to be part of a film that will be watched by a large audience.

You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.

On reflection, some things do super well because they hit with the time. Some things do super well because they are able to activate a kind of echo chamber or bandwagon or cascade - they didn't particularly hit with the time. Some things are just too astonishingly good to not hit the top. Those three explanations, with respect to the Star Wars phenomenon, seem to me all to pass the plausibility test, and to explore them, with respect to Star Wars, I think casts light not just on the saga of our time, but also on everything about our culture.

All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.

There is such a flood of TV shows, movies, video games, comics, and books, but somehow 'Avatar' is still being discovered by each new generation.

Funnily enough, 'Shooting Stars,' that stupid little panel show, is the most influential thing we've done.

Definitely India is one place I'd love to travel to and play.

For me, football is more than a sport, just look at the impact it has on society.

I'm thrilled at the continued success of the 'Big Show.'

Sports is a unique thing in our country. It's so influential. It's almost like a sacrament for religion.

Contrary to what most people believe, fads are made, not born.

No one is bigger than cinema.

I think a lot of pop music is escapist.

I won because I was the people's favorite dancer, and that's what I work with these Idols on. There have been 1,000 singers before you that are as good or better than you, but you're not trying to be the best singer ever. You're trying to be the people's favorite singer.

I love basketball, but it's just entertainment, just business.

I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who don't like Robbie Williams but he is presented to the public in such a way that they have no choice.

Sports is part of the pop culture landscape in this country, just like music and television and movies.

'Catfish' is a great project that we have a blast doing, and it's really fun and at the zeitgeist in the world - certainly in the U.S., hopefully in the U.K. and I imagine the rest of the world. Being at the centre of this discussion and this subject has been really incredible as both a filmmaker and someone who likes to participate in pop culture.