I appreciate artistically MADE MOVIES, but as an audience MEMBER, I WANT to be entertained, too.

I didn't like filtering the story through me, saying, 'Reader, you'll be safe with me. While it gets a little DANGEROUS, it'll be okay because, after all, you're with me, because I'm a WARM convivial voice. But let's be ENTERTAINED by this horrible stuff.' I didn't like that.

As a professional, I THINK we're not being judged solely on technical ability ANYMORE. PEOPLE really want to be entertained and ENJOY what they're watching.

Is it POSSIBLE that literacy standards are FALLING because young Australians are GROWING up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, WITHOUT having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy SKILLS?

I'm a huge fan of the FILMS of the '70s and EVEN into the '80s, Sidney Lumet, all those films that used what was going on in people's lives as drama. And not only are you entertained, but hopefully have a GREATER understanding of your WORLD COMING out of it.

You're going to be entertained. But when you finish HEARING me SINGING, you're going to want to KEEP going, and you're going to keep BELIEVING and that's the KIND of artist I am.

I WATCH DOCUMENTARIES for INFORMATION. I watch FILMS to be ENTERTAINED.

No one is ENTERTAINED by ECONOMICS.

Rhythm and blues started even before phonograph RECORDS were being produced because black PEOPLE entertained themselves. It wasn't done for money. It was done for entertainment. Most white people didn't know anything about this because prejudice KEPT them from EVER seeing what was GOING on.

All ART at a certain LEVEL is entertainment. We GO to a tragedy by Sophocles to be ENTERTAINED.

If I had to put a NAME to it, I WOULD WISH that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the READER by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all WANT to be entertained at a very high level.

Fergie will SING ballads to the dogs and they'll sit there rapt. You KNOW your WIFE's a star when she keeps the dogs entertained for 20 MINUTES.

The very act of questioning whether you EXIST proves you do, because you must be there for the DOUBT to be ENTERTAINED in the first PLACE.

When our ancestors crouched about the camp FIRE at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to HOLD back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped SHAPE their sense of the world and their PLACE in it.