I'm against escapist entertainment.
Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
I really do think VR is now one of the most exciting things that can be done in this whole sector of consumer electronic entertainment stuff.
I love making documentaries. But I do like other factual entertainment as well, and I like doing the lighter stuff.
Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
I read widely - for news, the arts, science, for entertainment, and the value of being informed - and, as a fiction writer, I can't help transposing what I learn into the scenario for a novel or story.
Film stars and players can be sources of entertainment but never ideals.
Gambling is entertainment... Financial markets, what one often refers to as speculation, is really the force by which we move capital to the best and highest use.
As more delivery systems for entertainment producers come on board, you have all these different formats where people are compensated.
We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.
If entertainment years were dog years, man, I'd be like Gandhi. I'd be, like, 250 years old.
I'm pretty deep into '80s nostalgia, specifically children's entertainment, so a lot of California Raisins, Garfield, Alf - that's kind of a lot of the clothes I have and cherish the most.
Yes, Marvel Entertainment has treated me very well and generously. Them, I like.
Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.
What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.
I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition.
Sadly, many in our world today encourage idleness, especially in the form of mindless, inane entertainment that is on the Internet, on television, and in computer games.
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. Rush Limbaugh's whole thing is entertainment. Yes, it is incendiary. Yes, it is ugly.
We really owe it to our world to infuse our entertainment with messaging.