Michael Landon Quotes

If you look at most mainstream filmmaking, to be honest, some of these films aren't even asking questions anymore at all.

As an artist, I am here to get involved in meaningful films. But that does not mean only films like 'Arabikkadha' should be made. If you give an overdose of such films, the subject will become jaded.

Shows with good content are important, and not the genre.

Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. We do that by speaking from the heart about the things that matter most to us. If a play isn't worth dying for, maybe it isn't worth writing.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

I want to put concepts in front of people that make them laugh or smile or even hate what I do. I'm not interested in just putting clothes in stores.

My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for the American public to wrap its head around some of the things I'm saying.

I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.

All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.

I wanted to make films that were culturally relevant in my own country, that challenged people, and that people talked about.

When critics talk about Three, they talk about 'Don't Tell the Bride' and 'Snog Marry Avoid?,' but we're also making important documentaries. We take hard-hitting issues and make them accessible.

I think that our task as filmmakers is to create the most insightful reality given the most pressing questions.

I think I have a responsibility as a film-maker to bring not only controversial subject matter to the screen but also to inspire a thought process.

Peak TV has resulted in beautiful shows that have nothing in particular to tell us about humanity.

As I get older, I'm looking more and more for films that are actually about something rather than just narrative vehicles.

The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.

It frustrates me that Britain can't make something like 'CSI' or 'The Sopranos'. Instead, British TV puts soap in primetime while every other civilized nation leaves it in daytime. Viewers should be more demanding.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

I think the audience know which films are aimed at their pocket, and which films are aimed at their soul. There are a lot of films out there made by people who are genuinely trying to make a change.

I admired shows like 'Six Feet Under.' That was an amazing show. Never boring, always inventive, smart. Loved the characters. Completely original. Those are shows that I admire.

The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they're artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit a certain bill aesthetically.

So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

The things that inspire people to think are what keeps a film alive.