Jason Blum Quotes

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing the art form.

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is in the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

Ideas appropriate to a past social order have a strange power of influencing thought and action within a later institutional framework.

The historical method is often deemed conservative, because it traces the gradual and stately growth of our venerable institutions; but it may exercise a precisely opposite influence by showing the gross injustice which was blindly perpetrated during this growth.

Tragedy is formed 'round ideas it does not expound, and to understand its history is, in some part, to understand those ideas and their place in the society that produced it.

There are human beings who will be helped in understanding our times through the diaries of Edward Robb Ellis.

When I'm not writing, I do a lot of research reading on the shape of civilization. Fiction can be a lot of different things... but I feel like it's my job to write about the way things are.

Almost all comedy is of its time. You can't expect audiences now to laugh at what amused people 60 years ago.

I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.

All songs, all pieces of art, reflect the world that they were made in and the values of those artists and the hopes and aspirations of the people who listen to that music and who made that music.

Creativity is not a mysterious thing, it's a historical thing.

Cinema is very important to me. I derive a lot of strength from this art form, and I believe that it is very impactful socio-politically.

A lot of the artists that people equate my work to, I didn't find out about until after graduate school.

I think, in history, everything is about the remix.

I think I have a responsibility as a film-maker to bring not only controversial subject matter to the screen but also to inspire a thought process.

If you or I had lived 500 years ago, our worldview, and the decisions we made as a result, would have been utterly different. Our minds are shaped by our social environment, in particular the belief systems projected by those in power: monarchs, aristocrats and theologians then; corporations, billionaires and the media today.

Photography was inspired by painting, cinema by theatre and photography, I don't believe that any new art form was ever created from scratch.

Nothing I'm doing is without its predecessors.

The ballet world I don't think is an art form that is quick to change or to adjust or evolve.

My goal as a comedian is to sway people's opinion. It's not my only goal and it's not the only way I measure myself.

Culture is an output of a bunch of inputs that have to come together the right way. Specifically, it is the collision of people and their context, how they interact with each other in that context, and then how that context evolves based on those interactions as they multiply.