Camille Paglia Quotes

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

Films are the largest and most impactful medium.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.

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

I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done.

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.

America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.

I think TV shows have usurped films!

There's nothing more American than movies.

He asked me whether I had seen the movie 'The Color Purple.' I said no she hadn't. And Bobby said, 'Well, it's a terrible picture. They don't make good, decent, moral pictures nowadays.'

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

I love to go see big movies, I just don't make them. It's just a different business.

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

No one is bigger than cinema.

Hollywood is here to stay, and we have to keep the momentum going.

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

I like to say that Hollywood is one of the most democratic entities in the world and the reason why is every ticket is a vote.

Hollywood and film portray who we are as a people and what we value as a culture.

I feel like I might be a designer or stylist - or a director because I have always been super interested in cameras and editing.

If Star Wars had failed, you wouldn't have 90 percent of what's out there today.

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

I hope that we start trendsetting [with Everybody Loves Somebody], you know, like having bigger movies also include that. Because I think it'll definitely change a lot of what's going on right now.