People want to see big, escapist fare. They don't want to be challenged to think. — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Fake realism is the escapist literature of our time. And probably the ultimate escapist reading is that masterpiece of total unreality, the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I like to watch MTV for escapist pleasure, but when I saw Snooki, I saw my twin. I couldn't lose myself in… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
We have to accept as a society that games are not escapist. They really do change us. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
This is who I am Escapist Paradise Seeker Farewell, time to fly Out of sight Out of time Away from all lies — Tuomas Holopainen Copy Share Image
Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I think theres escapist moviemaking, and we want to be captivated and taken away. If its done right, you can craft an… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative,… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
It's time to start recognizing that not all escapist entertainment is created equal. And that some of it isn't even entertainment. "Miss… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I'm not an escapist, but the value of language is that it can create places that did not exist before. And so… — Blake Butler Copy Share Image
My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a… — Allen Toussaint Copy Share Image
The neurogenetic meaning of the cultural revolution is now clear. Neurochemicals are designed to be pursuitist, not escapist. They open the nervous… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Men who scorn the idea of submission to the divine Will and are outraged by the notion of a God who requires… — Charles le Gai Eaton Copy Share Image
It seems to me that making escapist films might be a better service to people than making intellectual ones and making films… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist'… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
Port Talbot is a steel town, where everything is covered with gray iron ore dust. Even the beach is completely littered with… — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
I was selling a piece of my art on eBay from The Escapist, which was an adaptation of The Adventures of Kavalier… — Eric Wight Copy Share Image
Real life is generally much duller and inevitably sadder, most of the time. In film, you control everything that's going on, so… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There are large numbers of people in India below the poverty line, there are large numbers of people who lead a meager… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mom said I was an escapist at heart… that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one — Amy Plum Copy Share Image
The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Most people who are on the road are pretty damaged. It's an escapist's life. It's not a life that forces you to… — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
More than ever, movies reveal themselves as healing, as helpful, as encouraging, as escapist - anything that makes someone get through their… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
People do accuse me of being just decorative or an escapist - well I am. That's what I do. I am other… — Klaus Nomi Copy Share Image
Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense… But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom… — Amy Plum Copy Share Image
