Jonathan Banks Quotes

'Shameless' is going to shake up television. Any drama is good drama. Bring it.

Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true.

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

If you look at 1983, the film of the year was 'Terms of Endearment.' 'Scarface' was lumped in under the gratuitously violent banner. I mean, we knew it was violent, that it depicted a violent time and place. But it wasn't the end-all of the thing.

And we do talk a lot about my past and my impression of things and how it relates to what we're doing now. The Brady Bunch, in its heyday, was really the genesis of when TV started to become the force that it is today.

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

'Downton Abbey' didn't have the impact it had just because it was a good story about people. It was something about that period and that world that was fascinating to people on a level that wasn't just as an entertainment.

I think it's part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise people. And that's where the good humor is, if there's a surprise and there's something unexpected. Something that's not normal, not in the realm of general living expectations.

I don't think good films have messages.

He asked me whether I had seen the movie 'The Color Purple.' I said no she hadn't. And Bobby said, 'Well, it's a terrible picture. They don't make good, decent, moral pictures nowadays.'

I know that movies are basically meant to be entertainment, but I'm not that interested in entertainment.

The original 'Edge of Darkness' was fantastic, a fabulous series. It was of its time, but this film version shows that times really haven't changed.

I love the idea that movies, like 'Fast Times,' can be iconic and change people's lives in little, tiny ways.

I still go to the conventions, and I like to hear the point of view of people today. I'm a little afraid they're being brainwashed by this new pop-culture. I think it's not really elevating our lives like it did in the good old days of Hollywood, where you had a happy ending. They used to criticize happy endings, but really, what's the point of going to a film if you have to come out hating your fellow man?

I am hard put to think of a single positive thing that commercial Hindi cinema has achieved.

I don't judge cinema on its box-office success.

If you look at things historically, Kanye West has really represented the battering ram against political correctness.

'Hairspray' has never been irrelevant, which is, in some ways, heartbreaking.

My show on MTV, as outrageous as it was, it was also making a point, which was, 'Look at what we're doing here. This is something that you don't see on television every day, because you're not allowed to do this on television.'

'Your Name''s success told me movies still have the power to connect with society. As a medium, it still has a power that resonates.

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.

It's easier to make art for a society at a certain point in time with an understanding of what's going on.

'Narcos' was a very strong experience, not only artistically and politically, but as a human being.

When 'Psycho' came out back in 1960, it was seen as an abomination and as this really gory thing. We all watch 'Psycho' today, of course, and think it's so tame since there's no blood or any real gore in it. But for the standards of the day when it was released, it was extreme.

I go to watch the so-called mainstream films for different reasons. I certainly like those films if they are giving me something new to look out for.