Edmund Waller Quotes

One has to create music with mass appeal and not something which is niche. With niche music, you will only go a small distance.

If the script is right, I'm not above doing a movie with broad appeal.

For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.

I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.

The gallery is generating work for the masses.

Being mainstream is fun.

Pop music - deriving from the word 'popular' - for me, it's just great to be a part of music that reaches a large amount of people and not just a small amount of people.

Some people think big audiences are crass and that, say, a comedy that appeals to a wide audience is pandering. Other people would argue that you could say that about Moliere.

Things meant to appeal to the masses usually end up appealing to no one.

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

I honestly think I could sit down and write a show tonight that the critics would love, and I know it would be canceled within four weeks. I know what the critics love. We write and produce for people, not for critics.

A movie is a mass consumption product. I have got no delusions about being niche. I don't want to be niche. Though in the earlier part of my career I was into niche cinema, doing independent films - and I do have a revolutionary bent of mind - but you cannot make a change from outside; you have to be a part of it.

Fame or perceived success - it all comes from groupthink.

Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does.

I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.

Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

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

I'm mainstream.

A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.

The broadcast networks - they are literally broad. They try to appeal to everyone. They try to reach all of America, all the time. Increasingly, they fail to do that, but they try.

I'll put it to you like this: You can only go as mainstream as people will let you go.

Let me be very frank. I make films keeping within the mainstream and my cinema is popular cinema. I love it this way.

Broadway is not about surprises. It's about rewarding the putrid, formulaic crap that makes Broadway Broadway.

The Situation has mass appeal.