Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

My business is the analytical framework.

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

I'm enjoying myself this year and for once I'm not chasing my fitness.

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.

You can be barefoot and have worries.

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.

Television is one of the most fickle businesses that there are, you are in favour one minute and out the next.

No matter who you are, no matter where you come from, you are beautiful.

Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.

They're still in good shape, but I'm not flashing them anymore. I'm an old lady. I leave all the flesh to the kids.