Popular Perception Quotes

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds -- success.

Actors are always identified with certain parts. To some, Marlon Brando will always be the Godfather. That's just how it is, whether the character happens to be your own personal favorite role or not. You can't ever get away from it.

I always thought, like everyone, that Hollywood was a superhero factory.

You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics.

Almost nobody is thought of as presidential caliber until he gets himself elected.

Americans, unlike their elected politicians, are not stupid.

I began to pick apart our knowledge of Frankenstein and discovered that the public's idea of this myth comes from a million different places... I became committed to recontextualizing it all so it all worked in one story.

Norman Rockwell - even though we think of him as a great American artist, in a lot of museums he has not garnered that kind of attention. And it's this kind of accessibility that we're trying to bring - not looking down on any art.

Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.

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

Unlike other flagship programmes, which have been left with unpronounceable acronyms, like MGNREGA and JNNURM, Bharat Nirman struck a popular chord.

Unless you do the same thing, it's tough for stereotypes to stick. That said, whatever you've done that's most popular at a given moment is what people think "you do."

If you hang around people from L.A., they're, like, used to having their city being maligned.

Intention and construction of words shall be taken according to the vulgar and usual sense

We believe in the common sense of the common people.

It's not like vampires are inherently bad. It's just people need to make better vampire movies.

I think people make way too much of ratings.

People know the broad strokes of what it's like to be Spider-Man, but I wanted to really get into the details.

If you have a career like mine, which is so identified with Hollywood, with big studios and stars, you wonder if maybe you shouldn't go off and do what the world thinks of as more personal films with lesser-known people. But I think I've fooled everybody. I've made personal films all along. I just made them in another form.

I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.

I think that there is a tendency to underestimate the public.

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is a folly.

In the culture at large, the war over science fiction's creative validity has been long since won, but guardians at the gates of literature, movies, and TV linger unconvinced, even as other genres fitfully transcend critical perceptions of insubstantiality.

I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's become diluted.