Cultural Quote by Douglas Lain

Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books.

— Douglas Lain

The philosophy has always been pretty clean and straightforward, which is that if I see something that I like and I can see it's…

— Dwayne Johnson

It was Sci-Fi and fantasy that got me reading, and Sci-Fi writers in particular have pack rat minds. They introduce all sorts of interesting…

— Terry Pratchett

Everything that you could think about in life, or experience, or be interested in, theoretically should be expressed or dealt with in cinema. But…

— Richard Linklater

No movie can claim to be a work of philosophy. They fulfill a totally different need in people.

— Bruno Dumont

I've always been interested in philosophy, but I don't' think there are any philosophers anymore. Now it's artists. It's a visual thing - you…

— Michele Lamy

Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

This kind of stuff, it wasn't the cool thing when I was growing up. Now, pop culture is comic books, super-hero movies, anime, manga,…

— Mike Daniels

Philosophy is problem-solving. There's a philosophical problem, and then you try to solve it by approaching it from different angles and seeing what way…

— Kumail Nanjiani

I can talk about film theory forever and it may sound pretentious or something, but really it's just that I'm fascinated by it.

— John Hyams

Philosophy can help laymen spot and reject the numerous pseudoscientific beliefs that survive in the media, such as the fantasies of psychoanalysts, evolutionary psychologists,…

— Mario Bunge

Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art.

— William H. Gass