Janet Mock Quotes

Art has to be reflective of our society.

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you?

Pop culture is like our subconscious.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S.

I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.

Music is always a commentary on society.

Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.

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.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is in the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

Hollywood is a reflection of a general climate that we live in.

Whatever is shown in a TV show is a reflection of society.

The best kind of art or writing holds up a mirror to society.

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.

I think it's always good when you're able to, as an actor, allow your work to be some kind of a conduit for social discourse, and an examination of where we are, as a society.

Culture has always been more important than politics. Sometimes culture is a mirror that reflects what is; sometimes it's a search-light pointing the way to what will be.

We are all victims of culture.

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

In today's world, America's soft power is commonly thought to reside in the global popularity of Hollywood movies, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks.

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.