I think in our culture there's been a tendency for people to blame the audience. There is a tendency in our industry to say, 'The audience has left the building. People don't want culture anymore.'
The public will forget the government before it is born.
On March 4, 1789 the first Congress met, in New York City. Only 21 members showed up, not even a quorum:
I've done things that should be talked about, and covered serious issues that face our kids, but people aren't interested in that.
Most people treat the news media like the exercise bike they have in their basement. They're glad it's there but they never use it.
The public is a hibernating bear, hard to awaken and fond of honey.
It was very frustrating when I was president of Hakoah. You could not make any headway. We couldn't attract the public because it was an ethnic game. Australians were not interested.
Journalists know other journalists - that's the only reason my engagement made it into the papers. I don't think real people are interested - just the media, just Twitter!
Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
Both parties are impossibly corrupt and the public thoroughly indifferent.
I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
Oh yes. It's open all right, but not many people come in here to look at me now so there's no point in selling tickets. No one is interested in a man who professes to be a monster. They'll give me notice very soon. I started out being a great attraction, but people soon understood that what fascinated them about me was no more than the reflection of their own deformities. All I do is how them what is inside themselves,' He added mournfully.
I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all — that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open — has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed?
I don't care at all. I don't know the difference from one president to the next.