#mainstream

Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#answer #answers #appear #cinema #different

Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#any #asked #directors #films #i

With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys. ↗

— Curt Weldon

#been #bunch #cnn #dumb #exception

You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning. ↗

— Young Buck

#beginning #get #in the beginning #life #lot

I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream. ↗

— Eric Church

#everything #going #i #i can #keep

It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#business #comic #comic books #draw #embarrassing

I don't think I'm kind of universally known. I think in the indie world I'm probably better known than in some mainstream Hollywood terms. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#hollywood #i #i think #indie #kind

Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#ever #i #mainstream #movie #sex

I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#be true #because #feel #going #i

I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#been #cracks #fall #floating #had