Trevor Dunn Quotes

The problem is, with a lot of children's films, they are very commercial.

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

Contrary to what most people believe, fads are made, not born.

Media companies' hit-focused marketing did not emerge in a vacuum. It reflects how consumers make choices. The truth is that consumers prefer blockbusters.

I am one with the popular culture.

In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product.

I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things.

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

We live in the Age of the Next New Thing; we're assaulted day and night by tastemakers telling us what the next hit will be, the next style, the next cool.

All that pop that you see on the radio? It's just the worst crud I've ever heard in my life. It's designed to make money, and that's about it.

It's whatever sells; it's the business of it.

The only economic paradigm that movies have ever known is capitalism. There were no church sponsors or state patronage. The idea was that if you'd pay to see it, we'll make it for you.

In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.

Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they'll put anything out to sell a record or sell a ticket.

I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.

Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.

People think that the people in Hollywood have some master plan. They just make the movies that people go to see. I think it's that simple. I promise you if people were lining up around the block to see a Bible movie, they'd make Bible movies from now to the end of time.

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture.

I think Hollywood acts like followers of culture and is constantly seeking to follow trends.

My first thing was a McDonald's commercial.