If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.
Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.
There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
Fashion is silly. Perhaps I should say fashion in general is silly. But then everything is, in general. If you talk about music in general, it's silly; about magazines, in general, they're silly.
I hunt deer because they aren't capable of higher forms of thinking. All they care about is, 'What am I going to eat next, who am I going to screw next, and can I run fast enough to get away'. They are very much like the French in that way.
When you think about it, attention-deficit order makes a lot of sense. In this country there isn't a lot worth paying attention to.
The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we’re watching, and dealing with.
If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.
The only intelligent way to discuss politics is on all fours.
The World Cup is like the Overlook Hotel: the identities of individual meat puppets might change, but the structure continues endlessly.
I believe an artiste is a reflection of society. I write what I see. I am not a scholar, I am just an entertainer. I cannot change the way people think.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a delusional Housewife in possession of an audience must be in want of a ludicrous storyline.
Your own gown is most delicately suitable, both to the occasion and to yourself,' to be translated: Your gown is insipid and entirely forgettable. If you wear it on every other occasion this entire season, no one will notice or care.
The only thing an artist is useful for, and the only reason why we don't just line 'em up against the wall and shoot them, is because, at their best, they're the reflection of our lives, that most regular people can't even afford to think about.
Art is observing society around you, representing it through your eyes.
For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.
That's stupid." "That's people.
The best kind of art or writing holds up a mirror to society.
Children are the future, because mankind is moving more and more towards infancy.
Fashion is very quick. It's very disposable. It's immediately - it tells you exactly where we are in our culture, especially women's fashion.
Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
I'm a controversial artist, one who dares to have an opinion and bothers to create music and videos that challenge people's ideas in a world that is watered-down and hollow. In my work I examine the America we live in, and I've always tried to show people that the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue – it's been happening every day for a long time.
Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?"
Let me be the child in the story and declare that the Emperor is naked — or that America is culturally bankrupt.
