Lauren Greenfield Quotes

Popular culture is most powerful when it offers us a vision of how our society should look - or at least reproduces our reality.

While designed to visually seduce, Dune is not primarily a formal exercise but a social, ecological, cultural one.

Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world.

I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

Music is always a commentary on society.

I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song.

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

Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.

The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.

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

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

It can take the uninitiated a minute to realize that 'Gangnam Style' is satire.

You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war, the rise and fall of commercial dynasties.

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.

My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.

The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.

Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.

Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.

Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S.

There's something missing in all this new new media craziness, and that is something that uses celebrity news as a way to get into a really serious analysis of our culture.

I think Marilyn Manson has a better take on America than Michael Moore and I don't think he's appreciated for his intellect.

I definitely have fun commenting on the real world and interpreting through the 'Dear White People' lens.

I think artists throughout the history of time have always been controversial and have been a voice to speak to public culture in a way that a politician can't because they'll lose their constituency.

All serious art, music, literature is a critical act. It is so, firstly, in the sense of Matthew Arnold's phrase: "a criticism of life." Be it realistic, fantastic, Utopian or satiric, the construct of the artist is a counter-statement to the world.