Thom Mayne Quotes

The people follow what the media say. So if you said that Bruno Dumont is fantastic, it follows that more people would go to see my films. I have no wish to remain on the sidelines. I have no wish to make films that are only seen by bohemians in London and Paris.

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.

I want to put concepts in front of people that make them laugh or smile or even hate what I do. I'm not interested in just putting clothes in stores.

I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.

Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

I wanted to make films that were culturally relevant in my own country, that challenged people, and that people talked about.

The news media more and more considered the politicians to be props in their entertainment shows.

The media can make or break an administration.

The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty reasoning on policy, and vain conjectures on the public management.

Politics is television and whoever masters it is likely to win.

The public always wants to be told.

If you don't trust the media, they are not going to trust you, and if they don't trust you, it's hard for the public to trust you.

The definition of political cinema is one I don't agree with, because every film, every show, is typically political in nature. Political cinema is simply the brainchild of bad journalists.

If you look at most mainstream filmmaking, to be honest, some of these films aren't even asking questions anymore at all.

You cannot have the media so close to you that it becomes your voice. This is no good because it becomes too extreme, and people will resent it.

One thing that is fairly undeniable about Trump - love him or loathe him - is his understanding of how to manipulate the media and to perpetuate a symbiotic relationship with the press.

I've always considered myself a serious guitar player, but I haven't been really worried about whether the public thought I was. That never was part of my record sales strategy.

For me, it's important to ask what are you making, and what's the public's relationship to that. And I say public relationship because I don't really care so much about any sort of reception.