Maya Hawke Quotes

All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another.

I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.

I think, in my own life, I'm pretty political. I think I have some very strong ideals, and I struggle a lot with it. I struggle a lot with feeling like, 'I have a platform; should I be saying more?'

I'm very political and I'm not ashamed of it, and I think having the platform I have, I want to take advantage of that.

Everything I do is political.

I don't play politics; I don't do that. I think there's too many celebrities out there claiming what they believe. I think it's our job to get people out to study the issues and to know what they believe and what they want to vote for.

I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's overtly political or not.

A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.

I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists.

Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political.

As a young man, causes of one kind or another engaged me, and I thought the media is where you express yourself in that. I lived with the illusion, for quite a long time, that if you described something accurately, something would be done about it.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get.

My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.

I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political.

I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.

I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

I have a very strong political outlook, and that is something I'd like to take more responsibility for in my life. I don't believe in utilising certain aspects of the power I have with celebrity to push that forward, but I would like to make some films that address some of those political issues.

You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age.

One of the things that I've always not liked is the modern players have always concentrated on dancing in the end zone and BSing when serious things were going on in this country that needed to be changed. So my opinion is that when these young people stand up and risk their careers, that's a good sign for everything and all of us.

I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that things are in a muddle, and I have no power or vocation to set them right in ever so little a degree.

People want me to shut up, but I won't. I believe social change is possible; that's why I'm an activist.

I'm not quite sure precisely when social and political activism became a visible brand of my DNA, but it seems to me that I was born into it. It is hard to be born into the experience in the world of poverty and not develop some instinct for survival and resistance to those things that oppress you.

I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.