Bruce Vilanch Quotes

Popular sings are the only art form that describes the temper of the times.

I love pop music because you can really see what's currently happening in society.

Being a part of 'Sex and the City' was like being at the center of the universe - it was extraordinary.

Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

I don't want to be an art-house movie guy, where people who go to film school can discuss your work, but people who haven't studied cinema can't appreciate it. By the same token, I don't want to be the guy who's making this commercial pap that people lap up but that disappears the minute you leave the theater.

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

Whether it's a popcorn movie or some really intellectual sociopolitical movie, I think to some degree they're all influenced by the social climate that we're living in.

I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.

Today it's not culture; it's box office.

Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that.

I think Hollywood acts like followers of culture and is constantly seeking to follow trends.

I used to be able to pitch them on the basis of the zombie action, and I could hide the message inside that. Now, you can't. The moment you mention the word 'zombie,' it's got to be, 'Hey, Brad Pitt paid $400 million to do that.'

I like to say that Hollywood is one of the most democratic entities in the world and the reason why is every ticket is a vote.

Hollywood and film portray who we are as a people and what we value as a culture.

Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.

Hollywood is silly sometimes.

I don't buy into this idea that pop has to be frivolous or vacuous, and we've never subscribed to that.

I think 'Riverdale,' the show as a whole, is so now, so today. There's so much going on that can be reflected as far as what's going on in society.

Shiraz' is an important part of our filmmaking and cultural history.

I grew up in England, and at the time, cinema was very heavy arthouse cinema, and there was no one making movies that were designed to be in multiplexes.

We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.

Hollywood is here to stay, and we have to keep the momentum going.

I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society.

You can make serious pop, you know? There was a time when the best movies were the most popular, and I keep thinking that can happen again.

I have been skeptical, sometimes, about the importance of rap music, which I think is a capitalistic project to make money.