Anita Diament Quotes

People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.

My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commercial world. He looked down on pop culture. I definitely got the impression that pop was evil and that Britney Spears was evil.

I'd much rather fail than do something like 'The Chorus Line' movie, sanitized and Hollywoodized.

I think TV is all about not turning off the public, it's about not being too sexy, not being too much of anything really.

Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.

In trying to cross over to the mainstream, some people stopped writing what they witnessed.

The '60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.

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

So many things for me are unfortunate in the commercialization of something that is special. It's like when Led Zeppelin appears in Cadillac commercials. There's something that is taken away from your love of this thing and your connection to it.

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

Sometimes when things you love get really commercial, you end up feeling betrayed by it.

Everyone can guess what 'Corn Flakes' tastes like, even if you've never had them. But what, pray tell, does 'High School Musical' or 'Spider-Man' cereal possibly taste like? In this late era, we have reached the ultimate deracination between product image and what actually sits on our spoon.

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

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

'Shall We Dance?' takes a small, exquisite Japanese movie and turns it into a big, stupid American movie. Still, it must be said that as glossy and overproduced as the thing is, it's a good big, stupid American movie.

Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture. Eventually heavy metal culture, rap culture, electronica - they'll look for it and then market it back to kids at the mall.

Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.

Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through.

Since I became part of the zeitgeist, I've been called a sellout many times.

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

I think 'Empire' is entertaining. It's a soap opera. Does it touch on stereotypes? Sure, it does... I don't know if that's necessarily good or bad.

You really couldn't do a PG version of 'Crossfire!' It just wouldn't work.

Halloween is woke, and there's nothing we can do about it.