Jason Blum Quotes

Mr. Clooney has directed six movies; five are set in the middle of the previous century. And 'Suburbicon' clarifies why. Race is a blind spot.

In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.

Most of the films that I've ever really responded to are ones that I feel were really involved in their times.

Politics are always involved, even in my love songs.

For me, crime fiction was an opportunity to sneak up on readers with social issues, something they won't go out of their way to seek.

I define 'social thriller' as thriller/horror movies where the ultimate villain is society.

What I've appreciated about the 'Bond' films is there's always been a subtle social relevance to them. They've always commented on the times.

Although everything has a political connotation today, 'Mulk' is a social film, to be honest. It is not about any political leader, party or ideology.

It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.

I am an aware citizen, so I want my characters to be aware, too. They should be aware of what's happening in the society and make a commentary. They're not in a la la land.

I'll talk all this craziness in my music, but when I have your attention, and you're listening to me, I'll talk about what I want to talk about and what I think we need to address.

I loved 'Get Out.'

When I make my socially conscious songs, I go hard with the lyrical content; I go hard with the imagery.

As a novelist, you write about social mores, but not everything can be explained.

I choose my films carefully. I have done movies that are sensitive, which deal with some issue and are a mirror of society.

Film has to reflect the real world.

Art is observing society around you, representing it through your eyes.

In Japan, there has always been a small number of musicians who have been outspoken on social issues, but they tend to be dismissed as radical.

I have the comedic chops and intelligence to raise points and discuss both sides of whatever is on our mind as a society.

I have never composed a song keeping in mind that I should touch any social issues.

There have been many socially conscious concept albums. I wanted to make a 'social consciousness' concept album disguised as a country record.

I don't believe films should have a message, but 'Saleem' does.

Social realism takes research.

Sci-fi works for me as a way of getting across a social conceit couched as entertainment. Social realist movies lost their way because they are just not that entertaining.

I feel like a lot of the guys who are trying to do political or socially relevant humor just haven't figured out who the enemy is.