Tina Yothers Quotes

What everybody's looking for today, they're looking for escape-ism.

Entertainment is needed, and so I do think escapism is needed.

Movies are about escape.

I'm trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people's minds off their troubles.

If I can make people forget whatever they're dealing with for an hour and a half, two hours every night, that's nice.

As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.

Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

Sport is escapism. Sport is a release.

Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.

People love escapism and there should be a place for it.

Comedies are doing well because I think people want to laugh and not think about everything for a little bit.

People tend to turn to the type of entertainment that has an escapism quality.

At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.

I watch Jon Stewart because I need to laugh. Otherwise, life gets too serious. Besides that, I don't watch any news.

I think people watch TV to escape from life.

I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.

I tell you one of the great things about this movie is, with all that's going on around the world right now, it's just good to go to a movie where you don't have to think too hard, just have a good time, and relax and be crazy.

People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.

I think escapism is really important.

'Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.

People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.

I need distractions. Good distractions, not bad ones. A good distraction for me is a great play.

I like to act because I can forget about everything else.

The whole point of movie glamour was - and is - escape.

People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.