Taylor Sheridan Quotes

Art has to be reflective of our society.

Music is always a commentary on society.

To an extent, our relationship with the movies is always subjective. Our capacity to be involved says as much about each of us; I've never fathomed why anyone would want to spend four hours in the company of the exceedingly tiresome Scarlett O'Hara.

I am extremely eclectic in choosing my films as an audience, and as a direct result of that, I love exploring, I love cinema, and I love learning from different experiences.

All critics have the responsibility to tease out the social ideas and social problems in a movie. I don't feel an obligation to do that because I'm black.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

I continue to write songs that are topically related to social, political and economic issues of our time, but I also recognize that onstage, I have a lot of fun and audiences have a lot of fun, so I'm trying to package the messages in music and sounds that are fun to perform and fun to listen to.

I don't consider that I have to judge any of the movies I make all the time, but people are always asking me, 'What's your favorite movie?' And I never know what to say.

If you want to know what's going on in America, you have to watch soap operas.

I love watching film. I love watching stories. I watch the people in them... Even, sometimes, films that nobody else can watch - 'How could you look at that? It's lousy' - I can look at it and be totally into it.

I don't make films, and because I don't make films, I'm not an expert in the craft of bringing a film into the world, how you put its various pieces together. But where I feel like I'm an expert is my own feelings in response to a film.

I don't think it's an artist's responsibility to be political all the time. I think your first responsibility as an artist is to make music that people will listen to and enjoy. However, I think that when you are able to say something that is moving and put it in a great song, then that is even better.

It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live.

For me, every film is an interesting experience.

Films are never meant as solutions; they just provide entertainment value.

The best kind of art or writing holds up a mirror to society.

But I don't think as film-makers it is our responsibility that every time we make a film we should be saying something. If you are entertaining people, that's more than enough.

'The Room' has never interested me as a film. The reaction interested me.

Sometimes audiences want to see what we're doing to their world. It's our obligation sometimes to reflect it.

My films are like drinking a good beer, but pleasure doesn't mean that it cannot change someone's point of view.

Roja,' 'Bombay' and 'Dil Se' weren't planned as political films. It was a phase India was going through and these things affected me and found their way into my work.

I enjoy films like 'American Beauty' and want to do similar films that reflect our culture.

Cinema has a large scope as it is a mirror of society and with the mindset changing, people are taking it more seriously.

The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.