Bleak Quote by Matthew Vaughn

It's really fun to be in a film that's pure entertainment, that people want to go and see. I think, in the current climate,…

— Sienna Miller

I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the…

— Anonymous

One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had ambitions. I…

— Art Spiegelman

Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could…

— Jason Diamond

It seems to me that making escapist films might be a better service to people than making intellectual ones and making films that deal…

— Woody Allen

It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.

— Todd Phillips

A lot of the time you forget that movies are entertainment, and they're just a couple fun hours of escapism.

— Iman Vellani

It's time to start recognizing that not all escapist entertainment is created equal. And that some of it isn't even entertainment. "Miss March" is,…

— Stephanie Zacharek

What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes…

— John Podhoretz

I have immense respect for Christopher Nolan for taking a character called 'Batman' - taking a comic book - and making people believe in…

— Randy Pitchford

I don't think people are experiencing superhero fatigue. Do you hear people complaining that there are too many action movies? I think it's good…

— Michael Pena

I don't understand how our story can be so bonkers, but 'Captain Marvel' isn't. A lot of the ideas in 'The OA' that seem…

— Zal Batmanglij