Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

When I did 'Esquire,' I did a lot of celebrity covers, but the celebrity cover was Hubert Humphrey as a dummy, sitting on Lyndon Johnson's lap and aping his feelings about the war. I did celebrity covers that made a difference in what was going on in American culture.

I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.

I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you?

There's something missing in all this new new media craziness, and that is something that uses celebrity news as a way to get into a really serious analysis of our culture.

I find it funny to look at people who are people-watching, and, don't get me wrong, I like to people-watch, too. But it's an interesting thing when people on the street just stop and ask you, 'Are you Coco? Can I take a photo of you?'

I don't think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.

I prefer to watch people.

All reality TV shows are a triumph of voyeurism. They choose contestants who are ill-suited and slightly freakish.

Celebrity is a pathological sickness of the culture. Narcissists on screen being consumed by narcissists off-screen.

I always had an interest in seeing people within their environments.

I spend a lot of time wandering around the countryside just looking at people, seeing how everything fits together.

It's that experienced eye that knows what the public loves and how to create that Hollywood magic that drives pop culture.

Do you ever sit in Starbucks and watch people go by? Everyone has energy around them, and you can tell what kind of person they are just by the way they walk and talk.

On some level, you could say you wouldn't have 'In Style Magazine' at all had Anna Wintour not decided to put celebrities on the cover of 'Vogue' from her earliest years as Editor in Chief.

Popular culture is most powerful when it offers us a vision of how our society should look - or at least reproduces our reality.

Many find ourselves in this strange consumerist entertainment bubble where celebrities have become the golden cows of our time that we love to worship and destroy.

We manufacture a culture in the movie business, and whatever we put out creates a dark side and a bright side, too.

We are constantly consuming entertainment; we treat celebrities like role models and royalty. Sometimes destructive behavior gets ignored, or sometimes the pressure breaks them.

The fashion industry is an immense cultural and social blight that only gets a free pass because its would-be detractors are scared it'll start criticising their haircut.

Television opens up some bloody great doors. That's the plus. The minus is the attention it brings.

While designed to visually seduce, Dune is not primarily a formal exercise but a social, ecological, cultural one.

The entertainment industry has an effect on social consciousness.

I observe how people walk, laugh and talk. More than people I observe animals.

I used to try and find inspirations everywhere - I would go to the airport or train station and just study people, the way they moved and interacted and their expressions. But I can't do that now, I'd be bombarded by people with their phones - selfie requests.

Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and kill themselves. These things should be the least of our worries. The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal,' because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously.