Tommy Bond Quotes

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

I strongly believe cinema is popular culture. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's life.

To me, movies are valuable as an art form and as a wonderful means of popular entertainment. But I think movies have gone terribly wrong.

I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there's always a question of taste.

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

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.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

Cinema is not just a medium of entertainment. Yes, it should entertain, but cinema is made to convey a message, to say something.

I believe that cinema is not only an artistic industry, but there is also a political activity.

There's always this debate about how we need more good films but how many are willing to be part of such films.

I feel the primary job of cinema is to entertain.

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

Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.

No movie can claim to be a work of philosophy. They fulfill a totally different need in people.

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.

If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.

I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.

In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for.

I'm a huge Spike Lee fan. I saw 'Do The Right Thing' twice in the same night when it first came out and had long conversations with all my friends about the issues in it.

I am an entertainer. Cinema is entertainment. It is nothing more than that.

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

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.