Louis Theroux Quotes

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.

Cinema is the most important of all the arts for us.

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

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.

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

TV is art. It's mass art. It's accessible to the masses.

Contemporary art will never achieve the audience of football, pop music, or television, so I think we should stop comparing its possible area of influence to that of big mass-media events.

Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time.

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

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.

I really like the pop culture materials of everyday life, but used in some way that elevates them to something you notice and care about.

The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.

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

Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.

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

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.

My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

I think TV shows have usurped films!

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audience at a time.

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.