My business is the analytical framework.

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.

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.

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

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.

Misunderstandings arise only in undefined relationships

Life is not always what you think it should be. Sometimes life turns out different.

In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.

Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You'd be surprised.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

To be rich is to give a smile with no expectation of return.

Advertising always corrupts the goal of the search engine, which is to try to give you the most important stuff, not the stuff someone paid there to be there.