Contemporary Issues Quotes

I think it's the job of the artist to reflect the times and also reflect his or her views of the world.

I talk about things that are front page news.

Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary.

My fiction is a very accurate reflection of the world we live in. Certainly, in some stories, that reflection is amplified but America elected a man who enjoys grabbing women by their pussies.

Jefferson, Madison and Washington could not survive in today’s political environment.

Now the new things happening in France don't interest me.

The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.

I'm no longer interested in making political films. There's something old-fashioned about them. Young people now don't care for politics. It isn't present in life as it used to be. And increasingly I like films which reflect present-day reality.

There are problems in the world today.

Given the knee-jerk patriotism of recent war movies, it's discouraging to see 'Windtalkers' evade pertinent facts that could have recast the doubled-edged issues of racism and loyalty and made them relevant to contemporary times.

Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

I've covered the league over two decades, I've known Bryan Colangelo for a long, long time. He's not someone who goes on and off the record criticizing his contemporaries or his predecessors.

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.

There are no simple solutions to today’s problems.

It's extremely important that plays reflect contemporary times and should not just be about asking for social change without having any connect with the audience.

It just seemed to me to be a great story, set back in its time but something that seemed to have relevance for our time. Now that the film is coming out, it looks like we're back in another time where repression of expression is all the rage.

In the first test screening of 'RoboCop,' it tested very high. Then they asked the people why they liked it, and the first answer was, 'I liked it because it was political.' And the second answer was because, 'It feels like it deals with current affairs.' And the third answer was, 'Because it feels emotional.'

The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

Obsession with self is the motif of our time.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

We live in a complex world and at a challenging time.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

How is it possible for people in the modern world to go on killing each other for religion? The problems we should be concerned with nowadays are quite different!

I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'