Escapist Quotes

I do a movie and I hope everybody gets to see it. I`m not somebody who only makes cult movies. Sometimes they become cult movies and that`s fine, but that`s not why I make movies. I would love to do a really good audience picture, but sometimes it just doesn`t get offered to you and that`s just the way the ball bounces. I want to do big movies. I like big escapist films, certain action films, like The Fugitive.

I was an escapist, the guy who wanted to get out of school and out of the suburbs...Acting saved me.

I keep hearing that our films are escapist and unreal but I find our films the most real in the world. We don`t have people going up in a rocket and single-handedly blowing up a meteor. We don`t have a president on Air Force One saving the world or things coming out of people`s stomachs. Our fantasies and escapism are real. It`s just people singing and dancing in the street. If England had won the World Cup you would have seen people singing and dancing like that.

I`ve never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There`s always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it`s bad.

It`s the ideal escapist entertainment. It`s easy to play along with, and it`s not really hard like a `Jeopardy` or anything.