Quotes About Relevance

I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything - I want to find a way to get at the essence of what it's like to be alive now. The reason why great novels from centuries ago are still great is because that's what they were doing; it's like a message from another culture.

Some critics said, 'Hey, why are you writing historical novels?' I say they're not historical, they're contemporary, because people walking around who lived through this, even a little bit, they carry it inside. The contemporary isn't just what you can see now.

I'm not a novelty act from the '80s in most parts of the world.

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.

I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn't a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak.

I think being completely authentic about the time you live in is something that I would view as a career-long objective - to find out what is authentically this moment.

Before we start anything creatively, we have a firm understanding of our objective and our frame of mind for the campaign. Who's our audience, and what's their day-to-day behavior? How can we complement those behaviors? How is our message more than an interruption? Why would people care about what we're saying?

The fundamental dogma of Modernism - that, if the past is irrelevant to the future, then today is irrelevant to tomorrow - has created a throwaway society of disposable objects. That is sick.

Earlier, when actors aged, they were never, ever to be seen again; but times have changed for the better. Now you don't have to go into oblivion just because you've crossed 40.

I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.

Obscurity is just obscurity. There's no romance in obscurity.

Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium.

In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.

It's Moore's Law, everything will be obsolete in 10 years - I'll be obsolete in 10 years!

In general, obsolete technology is obsolete for a reason. Monocles are no exception.

If you've worked in a factory, and you haven't learned how to do something else, you're obsolete. That's just nature.

At a time when mythologicals were considered obsolete, Devon Ke Dev Mahadev' revived the genre.

I don't write political music. Political music is immediately obsolete.

Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.

All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after.

The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.

Take all the fuming and fretting of the media with a grain of salt. Much of today's news isn't really new. Most of it has happened before and before that.

Do you think it will rain? Milo: But I thought you were the Weather Man? No, I'm the Whether man, for it is more important to know whether there will be weather, whether than what the weather will be.