In television, you have to start thinking in terms of images- and understand how drama changes from its theatrical to cinematic form.
— Ken LoachBritish Filmmaker Known for Social Realist Films & Political Advocacy
“When you're trying to understand the motivations of people, quite often understanding the emotional drivers is at least as important as understanding the facts that took them there. In the case of Putin and the people around him, it's resentment and it's anger and it's determination to recover something they believe they lost.”— Sir Laurie Bristow
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I take it back to those still black and white photographs from earlier days, a form of photography that observes people, and explores the ways of observing them.
— Ken LoachBritish Filmmaker Known for Social Realist Films & Political Advocacy
The look of a film indicates the relationship you have with characters. You don't pick an aesthetic in abstract – you need to have a core point, a core reason to make a film, and the form of aesthetic springs from that necessity. Everything has to relate to that core intention.
— Ken LoachBritish Filmmaker Known for Social Realist Films & Political Advocacy
Working class life has been important to me; it's not a question of pity or disaster- but of enjoying the comedy, warmth and generosity of spirit that you find there – alongside the use of language, dialects, and the stories of childhood and old-age.
— Ken LoachBritish Filmmaker Known for Social Realist Films & Political Advocacy
Contemporary photography is quite exploitative – and looks at people as objects in a display-case rather than as individuals with whom we have a shared common humanity, connection, and solidarity. Photography has gone from I am part of this, to look at this.
— Ken LoachBritish Filmmaker Known for Social Realist Films & Political Advocacy
Politics and celebrity culture have always been deeply entwined. What happens in any society, country by country, is that we go through waves of celebrity focused and political focus. There's always been a blurring of the lines when it comes to the worlds of entertainment and politics.
— Perez HiltonCelebrity gossip blogger and media personality known for celebrity news website
As a whole, I think the media is a little more respectful now than it has been. I, for example, have a no kids policy on my website meaning I won't use any paparazzi photos of celebrities' children, whether at a playground, or when they're being picked up from school.
— Perez HiltonCelebrity gossip blogger and media personality known for celebrity news website
For the most part, there are more average celebrities than superstars. When most people think of celebrities, they think of A-listers, but there's also B-list, C-list, D-list, F-list and even Z-list... he gets all the perks of celebrity, without much of the negativity that comes from being an A-lister.
— Perez HiltonCelebrity gossip blogger and media personality known for celebrity news website
I just hope that those who become influencers make smart choices; it's the kind of attention that comes quickly and is very hard to maintain. The top 10 YouTubers 10 years ago are not the top 10 YouTubers now. There are a few people that remain, and who have maintained longevity, but for the most part, influencer culture is extremely short lived.
— Perez HiltonCelebrity gossip blogger and media personality known for celebrity news website
We have been interested in celebrities since the dawn of time. Jesus was the first celebrity, then the royal families.... It's human nature to be interested in the captain of the football team, the head cheerleader or who is doing what with who. It's human nature to be curious about those we perceive to be in elevated positions; not necessarily positions of power.
— Perez HiltonCelebrity gossip blogger and media personality known for celebrity news website
The world of celebrity offers an escape from the real world, and offers different things to different people. To many, the celebrity world is aspirational, they imagine themselves living that lifestyle and dream of how it would be to go to that premiere, have that fancy house, or that expensive vacation. For others, the world of celebrity is like watching a car-wreck.
— Perez HiltonCelebrity gossip blogger and media personality known for celebrity news website
The most vivid character of our time has been the enslavement of society to this profiteering system.
— Ai WeiweiChinese Artist & Dissident; Prominent Human Rights Activist and Political Critic
I'm grateful to be alive during this time. I can't think of a better time than this very moment. Freedom without struggle is an illusion. I love problems. How we deal with problems defines who we are and what values we stand for.
— Ai WeiweiChinese Artist & Dissident; Prominent Human Rights Activist and Political Critic
Without the internet and globalization, Ai Weiwei, as you know him, would not possible. My art comes from those influences and the persistent struggle to understand our time.
— Ai WeiweiChinese Artist & Dissident; Prominent Human Rights Activist and Political Critic
Power is seized with the gun and maintained with the pen. Controlling public opinion through propaganda and misinformation is the most critical task of an authoritarian power.
— Ai WeiweiChinese Artist & Dissident; Prominent Human Rights Activist and Political Critic
Art is necessary for the human mind. Art is about our dreams, fears, and imagination. Art is about everything outside of the system. It is a death sentence for art when it is within the system.
— Ai WeiweiChinese Artist & Dissident; Prominent Human Rights Activist and Political Critic