When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.
I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?
I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.
I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.
What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?
Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together.
I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.
There are two ways to become popular; either by setting the cat amongst the pigeons or by getting the cat out of the midst of the pigeons. The latter is better!
I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.
Video games are so popular these days, getting the opportunity to star in one is something special. More people should do it.
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
As touch-screens have become more popular, they have retrained how we interact with images we see on many surfaces.
I really see low-fare carriers, quality low-fare carriers anyway, continuing to become more and more popular.
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Hanging with people who make you feel unappreciated, for the mere sake of appearing to be popular, is the loneliest place to be.
As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.
I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution.
The superhero is a really popular figure in the West. In Asia or Korea, the young viewers are amused by the figure, but it is not really so sensational.
