Satoru Iwata Quotes

You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad.

Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

There will always be a replacement coming along very soon - a newer version, a crazier version, a louder version. So if you haven't got a long-term plan, then you are merely a passing phase, the latest trend, yesterday's event.

Fads are born to die.

I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger Games' is getting a lot of focus. It'll pass. The focus will be on something else. It'll shift. It always does. And that seems just fine.

But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that's what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.

It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.

I see groups that are hot one minute, and next time you see them, they're asking if you want a soda with that Happy Meal.

The potential hot tomato of today can turn into the cold pop tart of tomorrow, and I know that.

I think there's, you know, somewhere inside of us there's that - that fear of one day waking up and, you know, the fans - the fans move on to the next band or something.

Trends die. That's the natural thing about a trend. It's natural for people to be followers and be sheep and go with a trend.

It's a difficult thing to be in fashion or popular - it's all so fickle.

Television is fickle, and it's fleeting.

I think it's interesting to see how things come into and go out of fashion.

Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.

Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.

The trap is when you start to pay attention to that stuff and care, because in six months, they're going to be looking at someone else. You know how fickle everyone is. They love it, then they hate it, then they love it. So I'm going to enjoy it because it could be over at any minute.

If you live for this world, you are in the junk business. It's all just premature junk.

Fame is an illusion. Things can be given to you quite easily, but they get ripped away so quickly as well.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

When Guante started, they thought he'd be like popcorn, one of the most popular things around.

The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.

If pursuing material things becomes your only goal, you will fail in so many ways. Besides, in time all material things go away.

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

Men," Thom murmured. "Men who shook the pillars of heaven and rocked the world on its foundations." He shook his head. "It doesn't matter. Forget about them. They are dust now.