Quotes About Relevance

I think the best entertainment tackles social issues in a sort of seamless way.

It's a huge mistake not to embrace social media. We need to stay in touch and stay relevant to young people.

It's hard to be taken seriously by anybody above the age of 18 or 20 or something when you're doing a social media tour.

I think old people like Hillary Clinton and I shouldn't try and be cool with social networks, you know; maybe she should leave that stuff up to Chelsea.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

Most of stuff I audition for is stuff I think is socially relevant.

It's rare that you get to be a part of something that, hopefully, has some significance socially or historically.

Thinking about the artists I've loved through the years, my favorites are the ones who've made music with cultural, societal and political significance.

Sports occupies a central place in our society, and, as such, it is unavoidably cultural in nature and often engaged in societal issues.

I want to see us remain convinced that software matters in the future.

Software is like gardening - one day I'll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot?

My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.

The audience is smart and catch on pretty quick when they are sold the same old thing.

Actors matter only if you have great content. There are so many actors who work only with good content, either the films will not work or they will get audience for a day or two if they are not backed by solid script.

Most people don't really need to hear a six-minute guitar solo that modulates between five keys and time signatures. What they want is a good song.

People in my world can be disdainful of political and social problems and solutions. But we're never going to stop needing those.

It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems.

We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.

A really important thing when you come up with a concept is that you solve a pervasive problem for people, and you don't try to create a new way to do something that isn't necessarily broken.

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

It's very weird about movies: you never know which ones are going to stay alive and which one are going to be meaningless. When you're there, you couldn't possibly predict it. Some things slowly die, and others slowly stay a while.

Some things really don't matter.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

The idea that we're somehow centrally important to the planet's existence is pretty comical - although I'd like us to be.