Elvis Mitchell Quotes

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.

You can't get so serious as to not realize that what we do is entertainment, but when you have the chance to provoke thought or advance discussion on a topic, it's just the icing on the cake.

I believe that art elevates humanity. I feel incredibly privileged to be part of that.

I don't believe in very many things, but art is definitely one of them. And at the top of that list, film and art influence our world's culture much more than many of us understand and fully respect.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

Modeling isn't boring.

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

I think the point of art is to be controversial in a lot of ways. It's to cause conversations, and it's to get people excited about and talking about the things that the films are about.

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

I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.

Everything I listen to is influential in some way.

Anytime you can be a part of something that hopefully tries to make a cultural contribution, I love the idea of that.

As an artist, you want to entertain people.

I strongly believe cinema is popular culture. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's life.

All of our lives are enriched by our culture, from blockbuster films, best-selling video games, independent music, and internationally-renowned museums and art collections, to theatre, opera, ballet, literary festivals and performance poetry.

I am like a sponge: I adore reading, watching films, and visiting museums and exhibitions. I am always in search of new things in many spheres.

Lots of things inspire me. My friends and my family, obviously. I really like to travel, so very inspired by traveling and meeting new people along the way. Also, music and the arts, like film and television. I like to read a lot too; that stuff inspires me.

Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.

Art transcends politics this weekend.

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

The arts are a major life nourishment.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than life's daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.