Brian Stelter Quotes

Pop comes from the word 'popular,' which means that it could be anything that appeals to any group of people. When you talk about general masses, I think there's elements in every kind of music that can reach a broad audience.

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

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.

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

You always want your movies to reach the widest audience possible.

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.

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

The gallery is generating work for the masses.

That's just the way the world's going - everything has to be so instantly commercial that it kills anything that's a little bit underground instantly.

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

I don't make music for Christians. I make music for everyone. I make music for the masses.

Of course, you have to think of the audience. You cannot make an obtuse film that only appeals to a small niche section of the audience.

I don't want to be a musician's musician. I want to be an everyone's musician.

What's very important for me is that I want family audiences - all kinds of audiences - to watch my films, and the more people who watch the movies, the better. So I want to be part of popular cinema.

I want to make music for everybody.

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

I'm really excited about anything that is able to address the really big markets, so anything that's universally appealing.

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

When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.

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.

If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.

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.