Quotes About Pop-culture

Even though my father had a really successful career before the '60s, that kind of insane pop-culture splash that happened was so massive. People hear the sitar and immediately think, you know, flying carpets and tie-dyed T-shirts and wafting smoke.

Shrek is the Mickey Mouse of DreamWorks.

People underestimate the complexity of comic books.

I would love it if the whole 'Godzilla' franchise was revitalized for a new generation.

It's hella crazy being included in the music for the 'Ninja Turtles' movie.

The frenzy of the little-girl culture is something very unique, and I can only say that because I was one. The obsession - I can't really explain it. Everything is heightened to the maximum.

'American Idol' is a pop-culture staple that left the air too soon. ABC is the right home to reignite the fan base.

Star Wars' was derivative of 'Buck Rogers' and 'Flash Gordon,' wasn't it?

Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.

Vampires are a genre now.

Funny enough, I don't like vampires.

'The Venture Bros' are my jam.

My plan for the online version of 'Famous Monsters' is to become an online 'uncle' to an entire group of people who have never read or heard of 'Famous Monsters of Filmland.' The site will not be written in a scholarly fashion. It will be written in a playful, 'Hey, check this out!' kind of way.

There's something about the superheroes and the idea behind their relationship with humans, whether it's a metaphor for the better part of ourselves, or the more flawed part of ourselves. So it seems to really be our own pop-culture version of Greek mythology.

IN 1987, TIME published a cover story, titled "Those Asian-American Whiz Kids," that stands as one of the earliest pop-culture eruptions of a new Asian stereotype: the Asian American (specifically, the East/ South Asian American) as academic overachiever.

Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.

Star Trek?" I asked her. "Really?" "What?" she demanded, bending unnaturally black eyebrows together. "There are two kinds of people in the universe, Molly," I said. "Star Trek fans and Star Wars fans. This is shocking." She sniffed. "This is the post-nerd-closet world, Harry. It's okay to like both." "Blasphemy and lies," I said.

Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.

I work at a high school, and we have an anime and manga club.

Heath Slater, or the chick from Wendy's