David A. R. White Quotes

I have come East to find what the public likes.

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

I want to be a part of something, and when we define movies now based on how they do on the weekend. We live in a society of "thumbs up, thumbs down."

Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time.

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

Box office is one of the strongest tools we have toward preserving our ability to make our movies. We really can make a difference by purchasing a ticket each opening weekend to a movie made by a woman, even if you don't like the movie or the filmmaker and even if you don't see the film.

I humbly apologise for reality Television.

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.

Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie.

Media companies' hit-focused marketing did not emerge in a vacuum. It reflects how consumers make choices. The truth is that consumers prefer blockbusters.

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

Something's happened in our society which I don't think is beneficial, and that's that you see the public being fed box-office news. Newscasts now, every local station - I've been traveling around the country a lot, and you see the local news, and they give box-office reports.

People really love 'Madea' movies and get a kick out of them. They're phenomenally successful. People get excited when a new one's coming out.

Films are just consumables.

It's a blessing to be a part of television shows that were, to a certain extent, staples in a lot of people's lives and as far as their entertainment lives.

Today it's not culture; it's box office.

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.

I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.

Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today.

I think the only thing filmmakers can do is try to make good movies and make them as long as they allow us to keep making them. But at the end of the day, it is a business, and if audiences don't care, there's nothing we can do. It'll just go away, I guess.

Television really has been responsible for everything that I've done successfully.

Everything I do, I do it with the hope that people will watch it more than twice. Whether it's 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Pacific Rim' or the opening of 'The Simpsons,' I do it with that hope.