Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

Well, I'm a consumer as well. I go to the movies with my popcorn and believe everything I see.

Films are the largest and most impactful medium.

Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time.

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.

I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do. So I really want to be a part of those movies that say something good to a lot of people.

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.

Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.

I think TV shows have usurped films!

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

I look at the feature films that come out, and by and large, 85 percent of them are things I wouldn't in a million years sit down and watch. The more interesting storytelling is happening on television by a long shot.

Films are meant for the masses, for the purpose of entertainment.

I like to entertain all kinds of audiences with my films.

That's realism: a fact that if the audiences don't move out and watch good films at the theatre, people will stop making them.

We're writing movies that people buy without thinking about it.

I feel the primary job of cinema is to entertain.

I want to make movies that people see. I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do.

I'm always kind of off to the next movie, and focused on making sure that the one I'm currently working on is as good as the one that's already on TV.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.

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