Audience Quote by John Updike

We have had government funding for new media since the early '80s.

— Francesca Da Rimini

They don't fund the arts enough and they so often take words and music for granted and performers for granted - particularly women.

— Judith Durham

Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?

— Tony Abbott

In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To…

— Ben Katchor

When you have a TV show or when you are running a magazine, you have to remember that your audience isn't rich. They're not…

— Greg Gutfeld

I have read many, many of these first-time published efforts and often, even though some are absolutely at pro levels of production, and have…

— Gail Simone

Movies, far more than the traditional arts, are tied to big money. Without a few independent critics, there's nothing between the public and the…

— Pauline Kael

We really believe, existing in a climate where comic books and franchises are the order of the day, that new material and writers need…

— Bryan Lourd

Whether they're paying for it or not is not really relevant. They're investing a significant amount of time in our content. At some point,…

— Bobby Kotick

Financing films that are demanding is a task, in itself. Because people are so afraid of taking any kind of chance, because they're afraid…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill…

— Matt Groening

Owning content and original content has been our lifeblood - we've never been a suite of brands that's been reliant on a movie library…

— Nancy Dubuc