Passe Quotes

"I live in a town where if you`re a woman over 40, you`re really passé. In the movies a Sean Connery can get Catherine Zeta-Jones as a love interest. But Shirley MacLaine can`t have Billy Crudup as a boyfriend."

(on his feelings regarding past movies) Hollywood is a mercurial place where people are sort of . . . a victim of their environment and how the environment changes. Movies that would be timely now, ten years from now would be passé and nobody would be interested in the subjects. All the movies that I have done I have not been in control of. Sometimes there is a contractual situation where you go to the studio and they kind of tell you which ones they want you to do. Be that as it may, I have also been lucky in the sense that I have been able to make environmentally conscientious movies as well as politically conscientious movies. Above the Law (1988) was a politically conscientious movie. On Deadly Ground (1994) was environmentally conscientious, so I want to keep making movies like that which are more geared with a certain entertainment value but also bring people forward into contemplation.

I think that`s become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that`s a noble project.

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

The difference between the American version of Live Aid and the British one - in England, if you wanted a cup of tea, you made it yourself. If you wanted a sandwich, you bought it. In typical American style, at the American concert, there were laminated tour passes and champagne and caviar. I don`t doubt anyone`s moral commitment to the cause, but the caviar and the cause just didn`t jibe for me.

As far as dramas are concerned, it`s considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.

But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed.

It doesn`t matter what meet we`re going to - when you get on the bus he`s the most enthusiastic person there. It`s still a big deal to him. It`s not passe. It`s not old hat. His enthusiasm has not diminished in the least.