Hollywood Quotes – Insightful Reflections from Cinema

"The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time."

Steven Spielberg

"All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances"

William Shakespeare

"America was conceived in violence. Americans are attracted to violence. They attach themselves to processed violence, out of cans. They’re TV – hypnotized. TV is the invisible protective shield against bare reality. Twentieth-century culture’s disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movie, theatre, pop idols, and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in reality of their own lives, they’re emotionally dead."

Jim Morrison

"He felt that rock & roll was “the devil’s music”
“Rock & roll has been really bringing me down lately. It’s in great danger of becoming an immobile, sterile fascist that constantly spews its propaganda on every arm of the media. It rules and dictates a level of thought and clarity of intelligence that you’ll never raise above.

You don’t have a fucking chance to hear Beethoven on any radio station anymore. You’ve got to listen to the O’Jays. I mean, disco music is great. I used disco to get my first Number One single [“Fame”] but it’s an escapist’s way out. It’s musical soma. Rock & roll too — it will occupy and destroy you that way. It lets in lower elements and shadows that I don’t think are necessary. Rock has always been the devil’s music. You can’t convince me that it isn’t.”"

David Bowie

"Never before has there been an art form that was so exclusively aimed at children. The music business is unique in that it is almost exclusively aimed at children."

Dr. Alan Bloom

""Is Ringo Starr the best drummer in the world?" "He's not even the best drummer in the Beatles""

John Lennon

"There is probably no other human cultural activity which is so all-pervasive and reaches into, and shapes—and often controls—so much of human behavior."

Alan P. Merriam

"I know the secret of making the average American believing anything I want them to. Just let me control television. You put something on the television and it becomes reality. If the world outside the TV set contradicts the images, people start trying to change the world to make it like the TV sets images."

Hal Becker

"I say we close down the national media for 30 days and watch 80% of the world's problems go away."

Unbekannter Autor

"Every time I go to the movies, no matter how alert I am, I come out dumber and worse."

Theodor W. Adorno

"Hollywood, land of fiction and history revisionism wouldn’t produce a product of truth even if it was profitable; neither would its kissing cousins, the media and the publishing industry."

Walter Grant

"Our profession is like that of actors. Without approval from outside, we wither away."

Helmut Schmidt

"Actors and politicians have much in common…We want to play leading roles, we cultivate the art of deception, and we have a strong human charisma… (coughs)"

Victor Dornberger

"Actors and politicians have much in common… We want to play leading roles, we cultivate the art of deception, and we have a strong human charisma… (coughs)"

Bjarne Mädel

"Television deals with the decomposition of human consciousness."

Sergei Petrowitsch Kapiza

"The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible."

Steven Spielberg

"Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about."

Steven Spielberg

"Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science."

Steven Spielberg