Nancy Dubuc Quotes

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

Cinema is not just a medium of entertainment. Yes, it should entertain, but cinema is made to convey a message, to say something.

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.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

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

Peak TV has resulted in beautiful shows that have nothing in particular to tell us about humanity.

I do think that even with entertainment and telling stories, people in the entertainment industry have such a beautiful position in the world to speak about things that they're passionate about in a way that can grab people more than just sitting and telling someone about something, because you can show it visually.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

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.

I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.

I'm interested in making films that make people think.

I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.

The power of story and the power of a well-crafted film or television show is really all you need to speak to people. I think Hollywood is sort of catching up to that.

The reason I think the shows I do are successful with a wider public is because they tap into something that's beyond dance and is about being told a story. That's what people want.

Entertainment is a great form of being able to tell a story and to spread a message.

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

TV is the most powerful medium, which has taken me right into the homes of so many people.

Cinema, I always felt, is a very powerful mass medium to translate ideas in an engaging way.

'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.

Cinema is not Bible writing. It doesn't teach you morals, good values to live. Cinema is not meant for that. If you're looking at cinema that it'll tell you good values then you're mistaken.

Cinema has a large scope as it is a mirror of society and with the mindset changing, people are taking it more seriously.

People don't care how you feel. You need to paint pictures, you need to tell stories. That's what people want. They want to be entertained. Then all of the other stuff kind of filters across as part of the whole thing.

I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!

There's nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good.

I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.