Natalie Dormer Quotes

My focus isn't Hollywood; my focus is using Hollywood as an example. Because what happens here does happen everywhere. It's just a really concentrated and tense version here.

Films used to be about challenging, emotional journeys or moral questions that might make you walk away and re-evaluate how you felt about... whatever. Now we're walking out of the cinema really not thinking about anything, other than the fact that the Hulk had a fight with a robot.

Confucius - or Kongzi, which means Master Kong - was not born to power, but his idiosyncrasies and ideas made him the Zelig of the Chinese classics.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

What I dislike about movie culture is that it often presents a parable of our problems - but the issues are all straightforward and the people are either nice or they're not. In real life, everyone falls between those perimeters, but not many American films operate in that grey area.

I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.

I have problems with the violence and the torture on '24.' What I'm trying to say is that that's not the only story, and I think that the cognitive complexity is as important.

I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don't talk about that, that itself is a political thing.

It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.

China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it.

'Farscape' is a fabulous vehicle for looking at ethical, moral, political, and social issues.

Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.

America needs to hear some good sounds from Africa, man. The sanity of the world is going to be generated from Africa through art.

I think all things are political... How women are portrayed - that's a big thing for me. What is this role trying to say about women? Is this woman weak or victimised, and, if so, do we get to understand why?

Blue jeans have gone around the world. But that's a product. We market blue jeans better, just as we market film better. But you can't tell me that if America didn't exist, the culture of movies wouldn't exist. It's not a distinctly American art form.

We, as pop stars, are people not androids. We’ve got views. I’ve got opinions and I don’t see why I shouldn’t use a bit of my art to put them over. I think music is one of the most powerful media forces in the world today.

Art lies because it's social.

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes.

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points.

I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.

All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.