John Cabrera Quotes

Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.

I measure success in terms of the connection with the audience, which we've been able to do in spades. I mean, it's very hard to do that. You think about it, you go back in time, you can say, 'Well, there's, like, 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Rolling Stone' or 'MTV.' I think 'Vice' is in that category now.

I feel I have a political duty to reach out to the general public. I want to make films that the people want to see. So if the people want to see Johnny Depp or Tom Cruise, then it is really my job to incorporate them into my films.

You can have a great script, and it can be a great show, but for whatever reason, it just doesn't take the public's interest.

Something's happened in our society which I don't think is beneficial, and that's that you see the public being fed box-office news. Newscasts now, every local station - I've been traveling around the country a lot, and you see the local news, and they give box-office reports.

I think TV is all about not turning off the public, it's about not being too sexy, not being too much of anything really.

The newspapers and magazines, the theaters and the social reform movements, are more and more made for a public which looks only to be entertained and which has lost the power of sustained attention.

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.

You can make serious pop, you know? There was a time when the best movies were the most popular, and I keep thinking that can happen again.

I have come East to find what the public likes.

It's a blessing to be a part of such great shows that they're so recognizable.

Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.

Personally, I don't get that whole reality show thing. It was much smaller, and it's grown. It's like an epidemic. I'm still rather confused by it.

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

I humbly apologise for reality Television.

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.

I don't personally do movies for myself and a faction of very cerebral cinephiles - I do it for everybody and wish for the largest amount of people to relish whatever they find they can relish in.

I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment.