Finn Wittrock Quotes

There's something missing in all this new new media craziness, and that is something that uses celebrity news as a way to get into a really serious analysis of our culture.

For years, the defenders of television have argued that the networks are only giving the people what they want. That might be true. But so is the Medellin cartel.

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

I humbly apologise for reality Television.

I find reality television to be so delectable.

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

Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties, except more so, in an America that enjoyed seeing itself as smarter and braver and freer than ever before.

It can take the uninitiated a minute to realize that 'Gangnam Style' is satire.

As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war, the rise and fall of commercial dynasties.

I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

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?

I know that movies are basically meant to be entertainment, but I'm not that interested in entertainment.

Does 'Jersey Shore' make me sad for humanity that this is what's passing for entertainment? Well, this is a business, and if that's what millions of people want to watch, I can't fault someone for producing it.

I think we give too much importance to artists talking about the art and the film and the books and the plays and the music - it's done; the material is there. But we talk about it because it's part of the game. I'm comfortable with it.

'S.N.L.' has become what it was always trying to make fun of. It's become this big machine. I don't want to be plugged into a machine.

I think TV is evolving, but on the other hand, there is a presence of regressive shows happening, but I choose to ignore that because I am part of a very different and challenging soap.

I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which says 'What?' about the American Public. Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?

People always say "pop culture." As if we have some high culture to distinguish it from.

Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.

The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.