Robert Stromberg Quotes

American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.

The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

There are so many wonderful shows that come out through the year. What makes some stick is an unknown factor, you know? It's gotta be the right show at the right time. Really, you've got to have magic elements line up. But I felt that this was going to be something that was really going to ring true to people.

When I started to realise how important the film was to people I thought there is a lot of negative stuff going on in the world, maybe they need these two people

I'm looking for films that can resonate and hopefully have some level of critical importance but also have commercial viability and can put butts in seats. At the end of the day, that is the name of the game. And if you can find that perfect balance, then that's the sweet spot.

I'd love to be a memorable figure in the history of entertainment in some sexual, comic, tragic way. I'd like to leave the impression that Marilyn Monroe did, to be able to arouse so many different feelings in people.

There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.

As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

What's my dilemma here? Am I making entertainment or am I making art? What am I saying? At the end of the day, cinema is entertainment for millions of people, but for me it's expression.

At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.

It is extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Certain characters get to me and stay with me for a while.

In a very real sense, I represent pop culture in an iconic way. It's been very good to me, so anything I can do to help the fans to tumble along - it's good.

The Beatles kind of pervade everything. They're always kind of part of everyone's lives.

The power which football has is enormous. Football moves the masses.

Characters can stay with you.

It's difficult, the synergy between Drake and our generation - my generation, anyway - in the sense that his music is vulnerable, he's very open, and you can connect to it. Like 'Started From The Bottom,' for instance. Not many people would have thought about that, even though it is a simple song.

It's a lot of feelings, I think, when people so strongly associate an actor with a character they play - but the main feeling is I feel very happy that I've been able to play somebody that people connect so strongly to.

Most successful musicals need to attach themselves to something bigger than themselves, a concept that will make people feel immediately connected to it.

Pop music might seem banal and simple to some people, but it's what it expresses that counts.

Every great movie is about the people, even if it's a great popular success like 'Gone With the Wind.' It's really not about the Civil War. It's about Scarlett and Rhett. That's who you go to see. You're not going to root for the North or pull for the South, or, you know, it's the people you remember.

A lot of actors give a performance that many people connect with and they end up talking about it a lot of their life.

I want to be associated with content and characters that will be embedded in the hearts and minds of people for a long time.

Wrestling is a reflection of society, and it does have an impact on people.

That's the definition of popularity. Something that literally resonates with many, many people.