Ashish Sharma Quotes

It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon.

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first.

It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with.

If someone does something in an entertainment/pop ambience, that person becomes someone who has an impact on the conduct and attitude of a huge number of people who peripherally come in contact with them.

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

I must say, I was a very filmy kid. I used to watch a lot of TV and get very influenced by Bollywood.

On reflection, some things do super well because they hit with the time. Some things do super well because they are able to activate a kind of echo chamber or bandwagon or cascade - they didn't particularly hit with the time. Some things are just too astonishingly good to not hit the top. Those three explanations, with respect to the Star Wars phenomenon, seem to me all to pass the plausibility test, and to explore them, with respect to Star Wars, I think casts light not just on the saga of our time, but also on everything about our culture.

It's hard to walk down the street without 'Entourage' comments, and that's all nice.

We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

I measure success in terms of the connection with the audience, which we've been able to do in spades. I mean, it's very hard to do that. You think about it, you go back in time, you can say, 'Well, there's, like, 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Rolling Stone' or 'MTV.' I think 'Vice' is in that category now.

I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.

And we do talk a lot about my past and my impression of things and how it relates to what we're doing now. The Brady Bunch, in its heyday, was really the genesis of when TV started to become the force that it is today.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

The working-class aspirations are worse now than when I was a kid - and it was pretty bad when I was a kid. Reality TV means they are being told they are no longer a working class, they're an underclass. Young lassies want to be Jordan or Jade, but very few aspire to be the next Germaine Greer.

Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of 'The Simpsons.' This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it.

If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.

I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts from architectural quality. On the other hand, you can see in the public's identification something very positive.

I don't think a lot of people realize the influence TV has on our kids. Kids take a lot of their cues from it in their dress and their conduct.

In 1986, human nature in America started to change. That year, 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' based in Chicago, became nationally syndicated, and the country entered the beginning stages of a quiet cultural revolution.

Whatever is popular deserves attention.

People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.

Remember when Jay-Z wore a Che Guevara T-shirt? Nobody knew who Che was. Then Jay-Z wears it, and it's everywhere.

No American parent should be forced to compete with popular culture to raise his children.