Architect Quote by John Cusack

When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal…

— Tom Robbins

How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted and repressed; that…

— Sonny Rollins

“What they produce is not culture but a population allergic to logic, addicted to drama, and proud of their own mental stagnation. In the…

— E. Ravago

At the height of segregation, with every film role and public appearance, Poitier redeemed Black folks' dignity by pushing back against the relentlessly negative…

— Jonathan Capehart

Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war.

— George C. Wolfe

Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the…

— Anonymous

I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of…

— Adam McKay

One of the jobs of comedy is to expose hypocrisy. When you look at countries like Iran or North Korea that don't have freedom…

— Maz Jobrani

“Originated by the green leading-edge in academia, this aperspectival madness of “no truth” leapt out of the universities, and morphed into an enormous variety…

— Ken Wilber

I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy.

— Paul Krassner

“Simply put, relating to the world by following the world can be a recipe for disappointment and disillusionment. Countercultures that point out the problem…

— Gabe Lyons

The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

— Ben Hecht