Shane Carruth Quotes

So our films had a lot more to them than entertainment value, and I'm glad that a lot of people recognize that now. People realize now the value of them as educational.

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture.

Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.

I think that 'Twilight' is so big that nothing can affect it.

Artists who are relevant today won't be tomorrow unless someone does the right thing by their character and preserves it in the dialogue of a movie.

It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.

The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect life there more powerfully and stealthily than speeches, or even legislation. Imagined worlds can lodge deeply in the private sphere, dislodging much else, especially when the public sphere is fragile.

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

I want to affect culture. I want to have my mark on everything. I give examples of people like Bill Cosby, Quincy Jones - those are the people who I look up to. The game wouldn't be the same without them. What happens in the course of 5 years isn't really important to me. I care about what they'll say about me in 50 years.

I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

When I met Miller, for me it wasn't a question of wanting to meet him because it was Arthur Miller; it was a kind of astonishment that I could meet someone who was so deeply embedded in the psyche of my artistic development.

The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?

I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.

I love California. It has such a strong contribution to the history of culture, and popular culture. For better and worse, of course. Even the worst can be interesting to some degree sometimes for somebody creative.

If all greatness lies in the past, what is the point of the future?

No people ever sees clearly those steps in its own progress, those events in its own life, which future generations will count glorious.

There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past.

Our language, history, and civilization shine out across every continent.

I look at it like this: you may only sell 20,000 to 100,000 albums. But those albums are going to be heard by future doctors, lawyers, judges, firemen, etc. Those albums are being sold to the right people that move society. They're interested in what you have to say.

I'm glad Wu-Tang was able to inspire other producers and artists, but I would never want to be erased or removed.

I love making music, but if you make something that inspires somebody else to make something, without getting too airy-fairy, you've contributed to the zeitgeist in some way, and that's just an amazing feeling.

I would hope to make a record that interacts with culture in a macro sense. That is something to aspire to.