Joseph Bologna Quotes

It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.

Commissioners are obsessed with young people, which is funny because they don't watch telly - only old people do.

I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more.

When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.

I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool.

Old people should be heard but not seen. Young people should be seen, not heard.

I think, the world over, new ideas have come from young people. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but it is rare that new or radical ideas come from old people.

The entertainment industry is always targeted at young people. Understandably so, as they are the key consumers. The young are the ones who are falling in love, starting out in life; older people aren't. Nobody thinks, 'Now I'm going to write a film about an older person.'

The young come in many guises: vigorous and passionate, vindictive and mean-spirited. And not every person over 65 is dozing in a retirement home.

I'm not making music for old people or young people.

I don't think it's right to define films as commercial or art house. What's important is that a film evokes a certain emotion when it's being watched.

Young people are narcissistic. They become less narcissistic as they age, but they become crankier about younger people being narcissistic.

The arrogant view that young people don't count because they don't vote has thankfully been smashed for ever.

My age is very insignificant to me. I don't think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

To me, the real genius in making television for kids is making something that inadvertently - or perhaps intentionally - becomes something that can be enjoyed by people of all ages.

I love films that make you feel something but also deliver that payload behind jokes.

I remember the first time I saw 'Gupt,' I was blown away.

When I walk out of a movie that's actually good, I write emails to anybody I know who was involved with it.

I remember Nigel Martyn joking with me at Leeds, saying he was old enough to be my father, which he certainly was.

I remember when New Labour got in. I was at Salford Tech studying drama, and everyone was jumping up and down, and I was so upset, I went to a phone box and called my granddad.

I remember when I was a younger cat, I always thought the veteran guys talked too much.

I mean, I find drama to be engaging and it makes your blood pressure go up and you keep watching, but it's not as entertaining as, say, comedy.

I'd like young people to seek my advice, and trust that the decades I have lived through have added to my abilities to be a valuable contributor to the workplace and society.

When I go to a cinema, I don't care if the film is made by a man or a woman as long as it tells me a story, as long as it offers pictures that shed light on my existence, characters I can identify with, jokes I can laugh at.

As far as 'Dahmer' and 'Jumanji' are concerned, with both of them, they felt super raw and affecting, but in their own ways. I also thought 'Jumanji' was completely not trying to be anything except what it was, and I found it to be hilarious.