Quotes About Entertainment

I think movies are now like going to a museum and seeing the latest exhibit - people just aren't going. It really is a dying art form. It feels frustrating.

Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.

A movie studio is the best toy a boy ever had.

Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way. Shock and awe applies to art, as well.

I think Hollywood's gotten more reactionary and conservative over the years, because there's no longer art in Hollywood. Art suffers in Hollywood.

I'm not a film snob at all. I much prefer a really good Hollywood blockbuster than a thought-provoking art house movie because entertainment is sort of where it's at.

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.

I've had it-the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy-it's an advertising medium.

I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented.

When it comes to performing and entertaining, the art removes itself from the writing.

Nothing really attracts me to the film industry, to be perfectly honest. I look at acting as an art, and that's all it is for me. It's just fun.

I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.

The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form.

I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.

Bring me a girl, they're always the best. You put 'em on stage, and you have 'em undress.

Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.

Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial.

From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts. Like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments.

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

Art helps you connect to the world, not escape from it. That is the difference between art and entertainment.

Once art served to educate and edify, now it distracts and amuses.

A bad magician never gets the good props.