Ideological Messages Quotes

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

Film is carrying a lot of ideology. It's carrying an image. It's forging an image not only of the rest of the world, but also of yourself, you know.

Propaganda can play only on individuals more or less intensely involved in social currents. The isolated mountaineer or forester, having only occasional contact with society at the village market, is hardly sensitive to propaganda.

When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries.

I think my films are always political, even if I don't put explicitly political things in them.

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

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

I'm not a guy who takes films for strong political messages.

Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.

Politics are always involved, even in my love songs.

All political art is bad – all good art is political.

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.