David Crystal Quotes

'Your Name''s success told me movies still have the power to connect with society. As a medium, it still has a power that resonates.

There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie. Sometimes the splash happens, like with 'Swingers,' where it sort of slowly ripples out, yet everybody could quote it. Or it could be something like 'Elf,' where you just make a big splash right off the bat when the movie comes out.

When I walk down the street, even here in the U.S., they are always saying my catchphrases of my characters, and they shout at me with my catchphrases.

When I'm in the U.K. I find myself using a lot of Britishisms.

A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.

I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.

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

People quote lines to me all the time. I'm always surprised - everybody has a favorite movie, and they're always different. I'm always shocked. People stop me on the street and throw lines at me from 'Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight' and 'Deep Space Nine.' 'Shawshank' happens a lot because they play it so much on TV.

I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

The way I think or sing about something is very different if it is in Spanish or English.

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

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

When you buy a ticket, you're basically voting for whatever you see.

You have to be respectful of pop culture, because people interpret it in the way they want.

That's a good sign for a movie: When it becomes part of the lexicon and pop culture for an entire generation. I've been in many movies, luckily, that get quoted.

You're supposed to not like the 'Austin Powers' movies because people ruin the catchphrases. 'Austin Powers' is so funny.

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

Outwardly seeing how your music effects culture and everyday life, is amazing.

If you met me in London, you might be appalled at how English I sounded.

Nineties hip-hop in particular really shaped what became the common pop cultural language that we all speak.

For me as an artist, pop culture has so much power and influences society on a regular basis - I see it in the kids; I see it in everyone that I encounter. Everyone is influenced by pop culture whether we want to be or not.

Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write. It even affects to some extent the stories I write.

literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

Elvis is everywhere. Elvis is everything. Elvis is everybody. Elvis is still The King.