Steven Berkoff Quotes

I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there's always a question of taste.

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

Coming from The Disney Channel, anything I do is going to offend somehow, somewhere, somehow.

The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.

Everything's so commercialised it shuts down the underground.

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.

I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form.

I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.

I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?

I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.

The so-called intellectuals don't like my films.

The world is so caught up in the 'American Idol' idealistic sort of tendency in regards to just thinking that this whole thing is what everybody wants, but it doesn't help you make a better record.

Hollywood likes to put out their own message out a lot of times, and that message isn't the best one for everyone.

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

If an artist is going to take money from the taxpayers I guess he's got to be prepared to have the taxpayers dissatisfied with the product.

I will not have the Federal Theater used politically.

As soon as any art is pursued with a view of money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work.

There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.

Anybody that doesn't like Netflix, that's like saying you hate Santa Claus.

I've made six films for Disney, and they have a clause in their contracts called the morality clause that I've always refused to sign.

I don't think it's an unnatural thing at all for my collaborations or projects to be seen as art but entertainment at the same time.

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.

We aren't just some record to put out before the new Pussycat Dolls CD!

We've had a steady diet of that PG-13 entertainment. It's the best vanilla you can buy. It's delicious, but it's getting kind of samey.