Escapists Quote by Tom Shales

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

“When you conform to the monoculture's version of who you are and what the world is like, you lose your freedom along with your…

— F.S. Michaels

“The world’s now placid, featureless, and culturally dead: nothing really new has been created since the Overlords came. The reason’s obvious. There’s nothing left…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Its absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to sit in confinement with people of exactly the same age…

— John Taylor Gatto

There is a somewhat-surprising, somewhat totally predictable paucity of struggle in entertainment television. I do like being a part of a show featuring a…

— Lucas Neff

I ended up with my life slanted toward television, and I just accept that. I think you play the hand the way it's dealt,…

— Efrem Zimbalist, Jr

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

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

TV's exploration of the game of consumption and sociability is, by the nature ofthe medium, on a far more subtle level than anything ever…

— Reuel Denney

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

There's such a self-conscious balance that goes into television. Also, these are not people that think things through.

— P. J. O'Rourke