Jon Stewart Quotes

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

With 300 million people in America, you can fail to impress 299 million of them and still go platinum.

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

I don't relate to the 'Twilight' books or movies at all, but I'm obsessed with it as a pop culture phenomenon - all these people just screaming like it was the Beatles.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.

Report uttered by the people is everywhere a great power.

Give the public what it wants.

If someone does something in an entertainment/pop ambience, that person becomes someone who has an impact on the conduct and attitude of a huge number of people who peripherally come in contact with them.

It's that experienced eye that knows what the public loves and how to create that Hollywood magic that drives pop culture.

There is a noticeable difference from a crowd surging against you and a crowd surging with you.

I don't understand the public, but I do believe the public is oversold and underrated every day. Give the people something interesting, something to chew on, I say.

Cinema and cricket are two professions in this country that people have an opinion on.

Contrary to what most people believe, fads are made, not born.

I don't even know what is popular.

I don't know what hype you're talking about, I don't pay attention to it.

I don't care if the critics don't like me. I want to be the people's designer, like Diana was the people's princess.

... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would be forbidden them individually.

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt?

What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

You can't argue with popularity. Well, you could, but you'd be wrong!