Nick Cave Quotes

That's what's great about show business. It's escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you're in another world. Forget about the problems in the world. It's wonderful.

People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.

I've watched films and even forgotten I'm in them.

'Blind Date' was my lifeline. It was 90 minutes when I could forget about everything, forget about the world.

I live in my imagination, so sometimes movies help me get lost. I feel like I'm in it.

The beauty of a movie is that you walk in, you don't know anything about it, you enter a world that's new to you, and that's the magic of being transported.

Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.

So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.

When I watch movies - when I watch 'Star Wars' - you want to watch the fun characters, the diversions.

To be honest, acting was something where I got a chance to be somebody else and forget about the situation I was in.

I am a fairytale person and firmly believe that movies are made to entertain.

I have a very simple definition of a good movie: a good movie makes you forget you're watching a movie.

Movies are magical. It transcends a lot of hate or human faults in real life because of the fantasy of it all.

With larger-than-life films, you are lifted from your mundane, ordinary life because you empathise with the hero, and people see themselves in him.

It's a beacon of hope in a dark world. You watch 'The Muppets' and you're smiling for an hour and a half, and then you go outside, and the economy is in crisis.

I don't want to go too deep, but football and 'Dragon Ball Z' were the two things that, when I was going through a hard time when I was younger, kind of gave me an escape.

The responsibility that I ultimately feel to the audience is to entertain, maybe enlighten, and help you take your mind off messy things.

Sometimes I can get lost in games.

Ultimately, the idea of being able to escape and lose myself in a new world every time I go to 'work' was too appealing to ignore.

At the end of the day, you are doing the film for the audience.

Mindless films are usually far more entertaining because the audience just comes for a laugh.

Any cinema has to be entertaining. Boring cinema won't work. If you want to make one, then screen it for free on TV.

I guess housewives like to get away from reality and enjoy the fantasy world for a bit.

The reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.

I get bored very easily. I find most movies boring. I go to movies and ask, "How do they stay awake making this?"