If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous.… — Michael Schudson Copy Share Image
Elvis Presley's death deprives our country of a part of itself. He was unique, irreplaceable. More than twenty years ago, he burst… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now. — Brad Bird Copy Share Image
Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
An asteroid impact in the worst case scenario is a terrifying thing. It seems very uncontrollable: in popular culture, it's often a… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
I've no patience for people who say they never watch television. It's a great way to keep in touch with popular culture,… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
I hate these questions - I don't like talking about this stuff [popular culture], because it's so... to me, it's so ordinary. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were… — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
“When one looks back across a chasm of seventy years, through a prism of pulp fiction and bad gangster movies, there is… — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
“Border crossing' is a recurrent theme in all aspects of my work -- editing, writing, and painting. I'm interested in the various… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
One could dismiss the zombie trend as merely feeding a mass public that craves the strange and bizarre. Such an explanation would… — Daniel Drezner Copy Share Image
Being in conversation with everything popular culture, there's such a danger there. Sometimes you just don't realize how it comes across, but… — Sarah Sherman Copy Share Image
What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
“The city had seemed like a great place to discover who you are. It just seemed that there was a lot to… — Sari Botton Copy Share Image
Now there's a whole generation of filmmakers who grew up making their own films with video cameras, and have dined entirely on… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
Long before social media existed, the proto-tweets of advertising had penetrated American popular culture: 'A mind is a terrible thing to waste.'… — David Droga Copy Share Image
The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats. — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
Often, we separate intellectual discourse from emotional reaction. But I take such genuine pleasure in things that are intellectually well architected. It's… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
