John Lahr Quotes

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.

I have always had a deep belief that every movie, every artistic expression, is political. Don't be fooled. Even ones that we wouldn't consider overtly political are political. When we spend time doing anything, whether it's distraction or whether it's something that we have to face, it is always political. That's my belief.

Charlie Chaplin, too, through spectacle, contraband certain ideas, put them through, ideas that even today are not being expressed by great statesmen and politicians.

I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.

You were doing a TV show - you don't realise that you're also making social commentary at the same time.

Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

I just love movies, so suddenly, you're political about movies, and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated.

Whether it's a popcorn movie or some really intellectual sociopolitical movie, I think to some degree they're all influenced by the social climate that we're living in.

I will not have the Federal Theater used politically.

Media is totally Modi, Modi-media.

Yes, the Obama administration has and will continue to use Hollywood and the entertainment industry to push its agenda.

Cinema is not Bible writing. It doesn't teach you morals, good values to live. Cinema is not meant for that. If you're looking at cinema that it'll tell you good values then you're mistaken.

I request the audience to not mix cinema with politics.

Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

Art transcends politics this weekend.

My main object in making a motion picture is entertainment. If at the same time I can strike a blow for liberty, then I'll stick one in.

I like to say that Hollywood is one of the most democratic entities in the world and the reason why is every ticket is a vote.

This band isn't mostly about being a political protest band. We want to entertain; we want to give you a good time. At the same time, if you look through the history of Priest, there's always been an intelligent factor.

Cinema has a large scope as it is a mirror of society and with the mindset changing, people are taking it more seriously.

Cartoons, if you ask me, are the most powerful weapon in today's politics. Balasaheb Thackeray has proved this.