Ving Rhames Quotes

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

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

What's interesting when you see 'Black Panther' is you realize it couldn't have been directed by anybody else but Ryan Coogler. It's a great adventure movie, and it works on all those different levels as entertainment, but it has this kind of cultural through-line that is so specific that it makes it universal.

Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.

The day Obama got into office, rap was less important because Obama gave kids an alternative. But will rap ever go away? No. There will always be a need for poets.

I think 'Empire' is entertaining. It's a soap opera. Does it touch on stereotypes? Sure, it does... I don't know if that's necessarily good or bad.

Art is a form of experience of the person, the place, the history of the people, and as black people, we are different. We hail from Africa to America, so the culture is mixed, from the African to the American. We can't drop that. It's reflected in the music, the dance, the poetry, and the art.

I don't think German films have to be heavy or intellectual the way they sometimes used to be.

The role of art in society is not to resolve conflicts; rather, it is to express these conflicts and antagonisms.

You can go through comic strips alone and study the common man. You can trace our history.

I don't think it's an unnatural thing at all for my collaborations or projects to be seen as art but entertainment at the same time.

The most important thing is to have a point of view and have something to say. That is important if you are filmmaker or artist. That means you have to experience the world.

I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.

I'm very into film and strengthening what it means to be a rapper and to be a black dude from Chicago.

I hope 'Chess' will hit the big screen. It seems a natural to me. Good venues, tunes, and politics.

More meaningful cinema is being made, and that is the reason why you see a rejuvenated Malayalam film industry. But more films aimed at youth are needed.

The point about 'state-of-the-nation' novels is not that they should be about the 'state-of-the-nation', but they should be about people.

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

My books are not 'political.' I don't make political demands. They actually describe life. But when we look at human life, politics creeps in everywhere.

This is my point of view, and that's why I call the show 'Ramy'. I made the show that I would want to see. So it's only going to hit on certain things.

But I don't think as film-makers it is our responsibility that every time we make a film we should be saying something. If you are entertaining people, that's more than enough.

I want to be able to bring out stories like 'Verna,' as well as stories which are of the modern and new generation like 'Ho Mann Jahaan,' which is a film I did of the youth of Pakistan.

Often, entertainment goes deeper, in terms of ideas, than the newspapers.

My work or art form should represent the kind of world view I believe in.

I am hard put to think of a single positive thing that commercial Hindi cinema has achieved.