Kim Weston Quotes

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.

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

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

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.

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

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

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.

Art is for everybody.

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

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

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.

For decades, we've worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a steadily declining path toward lowest-common-denominator standards, presumably because the 'masses' want dumb, simple pleasures and big media companies want to give the masses what they want.

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.

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

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

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

The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'

TV is art. It's mass art. It's accessible to the masses.

Films are meant for the masses, for the purpose of entertainment.

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.

My work participates in that really quick and easy and inexpensive material that's part of our culture. In that way, my work engages the means of production that we live with, even while it's classical and embodies some things from a very long time ago.