Kurt Sutter Quotes

I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.

When I do a political movie, I do a political movie.

I'm not a political comic.

I like to make broader strokes with politics in my work.

I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music.

I'm not a political filmmaker.

It makes me nuts, the idea that if you put a political struggle at the heart of your book, then it has to be that the author - me - is trying in some way to push my views onto my readers.

I am of the opinion that I am not a political writer, and, moreover, that as far as true literature is concerned, there actually are no political writers. I think that my writing is no more political than ancient Greek theatre. I would have become the writer I am in any political regime.

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

I am political. But not politically active. I'm not my dad. I'll never write polemic, as he did.

I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's sake, and you know, kind of try to keep political debate out of our work. And to that I say, I'd like you to show me an example of, you know, this so-called apolitical art. I don't think there's any such thing.

Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through his fiction.

A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don’t talk politics.

I grew up with an infestation of politics. I'm just nuts about it. It's our form of gladiators in the arena, only they are not in quite as good a shape.

I knew who Buckley and Vidal were growing up, being a political junkie.

I think about politics, so it would be inauthentic not to talk about it.

I'm fascinated by politics. I love watching everyone from Neil deGrasse Tyson to Lawrence Krauss to people like Richard Dawkins and Noam Chomsky on YouTube.

I don't consider myself a serious and social political critic.

It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.

When you've got somebody who's a flaming liberal like Bill Maher calling you out, something's wrong.

Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.

We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.