Warren G. Harding Quotes

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

Cinema is the most important of all the arts for us.

We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain.

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to the world.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

I think you should make more movies, more musicals. I think the public deserves that. I think this country deserves to be able to get out and foster that talent. Give them an opportunity to become stars. I think the whole idea is wonderful.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do. So I really want to be a part of those movies that say something good to a lot of people.

The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.'

A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

Australians just don't see that many Australian films, but it's also our responsibility as filmmakers and the responsibility of the funding bodies to remember that audiences want to be entertained, and people are entertained in lots of different ways.

Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

There are a lot of movies made for nobody.

Television is the medium through which society communicates its democratic values.

It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking onto the matter.

The worst thing about this modern world is that people think you get killed on television with zero pain and zero blood. It must enter into kids' heads that it's not very messy to kill somebody, and it doesn't hurt that much. That's a real sickness to me. That's a real sick thing.

Television is not a gimmick, and if you think it is, you’ll lose again.

I strongly believe cinema is popular culture. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's life.

I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.

No one is bigger than cinema.

'Your Name''s success told me movies still have the power to connect with society. As a medium, it still has a power that resonates.