Quotes About Society

There comes a real loneliness in celebrity where you're constantly told you're part of an out group in your own society.

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

New York and Los Angeles are really one city, and the rest of the country is America.

There's a particularly British wariness of appearing to try too hard. It's somehow distasteful. Everything should come to us seamlessly and, if you have to work at it, you're somehow a loser.

What love life? I'm not gay, but I might as well be.

'Puffball' is a love story... no, it's a life story.

Americans mostly don't want lower taxes.

The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself.

If I have a thought, I say it. If I keep it down, it's because I'm waiting for a good moment for me to say my piece. That's a luxury we have in our society, but parts of the world still don't have it.

I'm so tired of cyberpunk that says using machines to make your life better makes you less human.

The world used us as an excuse to go mad.

It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.

The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.

People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.

I'll put it to you like this: You can only go as mainstream as people will let you go.

Washington, D.C. is not on the side of mainstream and main street America.

Everyone is being told by society to talk this way, to dress that way, to be this person or to be that person, and it's so important to just maintain a sense of self.

People tend to think of psychopaths as criminals. In fact, the majority of psychopaths aren't criminal.

The majority of women in America look like me.

If you ask me what I should say to the girls who are making money, I think it's as normal as a guy making money.

I think I'm a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere around 1976. I never left the mainstream of American movies; the American mainstream left me.

We should understand the impact that Malcolm had on the whole of American society.

Male actors have to lie about their ages, too.

All divisions are man-made.