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I want to have an ending where people say: "That's the most shocking ending I've ever seen in a mainstream horror film."
— Eli Roth
Alex Poots has always made a bridge between highly experimental and the mainstream.
— Hans Ulrich Obrist
The way to find what the mainstream will do tomorrow is to associate with the lunatic fringe today.
— Jean Louis
People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream.
— Kevin Smith
Ten years ago, desalination was the crazy aunt in the attic. That's changed. It is now entering the mainstream and being taken seriously.
— Barry Nelson
Through failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood.
— Sylvester Stallone
I would like to point to the extraordinary lengths the mainstream media will go to maintain a sensationalist story.
— John McAfee
I'm not really that keen on mainstream; I'm not interested in doing the normal films. I do tend to go for the quirky, different scripts.
— Gina Bellman
I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again.
— Mara Wilson
If no one ever deviated from currently accepted mainstream Science - we would still have the Flat Earth Society!
— Mary Nash Stoddard
Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream.
— Virginia Foxx
Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.
— Robert Plant
In a few years you may find a Starbucks, which will bring the town what it yearns for: prepackaged, preapproved mainstream hipness.
— Gillian Flynn
The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.
— Sydney Schanberg
For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.
— Haile Gerima
'The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences.
— Anurag Kashyap
There's not a lot of pop music in the mainstream that makes you feel scared, that makes you wonder what's happening.
— Prince
Historically the mainstream media has never been particularly friendly to any socially progressive ideas.
— Janeane Garofalo
will never be called upon to enact: the mainstream is
— Laura Thompson
I mean, MTV or the mainstream media can tell you one thing, but when there are 40,000 people in front of you, who cares about all that?
— Sebastian Bach
I think I'm in the majority of Americans. I believe that I am in the mainstream of middle America.
— Michael Moore
To move into the mainstream, the ideational contender has to reframe the crisis by changing the very definition of reality.
— Fred L. Block
The mainstream is always under attack.
— Bill Gates
I do find that the mainstream media oftentimes is what I would consider off base or has a bias.
— Dick Cheney
Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn't in vain, he was able to justify his presence.
— Roy L. Pickering Jr.
I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.
— Jim Jarmusch
Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
— Iain Duncan Smith
Check other sources before believing mainstream media.Seek the truth.
— Anne-Rae Vasquez
Gooseberries should be mainstream berries! Why are chemically fattened strawberries a thing? Why not the delicious gooseberry?
— Andrew Dost
Probably one of the reasons I don't work in the mainstream anymore is that I'm only interested in making the stuff I want to make
— Chris Cunningham
The Muslim community should not be treated as a problematic community, but treated as a community that is willing to play its role in the mainstream.
— Iqbal Sacranie
Son-In-Law was kind of my crossover. It was the movie that brought me out of the MTV audience into the mainstream.
— Pauly Shore
The best tests of my Christian growth occur in the mainstream of life, not in the quietness of my study
— Charles R. Swindoll
It's very important to me to find ways to relate the audience to the characters. This is the first thing to go in most mainstream horror films.
— Ti West
I don't think it is deniable: whenever we, I, conservative media, are really interested in something, the mainstream media purposely avoid it.
— Rush Limbaugh
The mainstream of literary culture in the U.K. is very averse to writing about technology.
— Nick Harkaway
[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!
— Terry Pratchett
The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He - or she - is the new mainstream.
— Richard Florida
Trivia is mainstream. 'Nerd' is the new 'cool.
— Ken Jennings
This is the truth about mainstream media and advertising: People wouldn't have to pay to show you such messages if they were right.
— J.R. Rim
That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.
— Henry Rollins
Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group.
— Dennis Miller
You know you've built a product that can hit the mainstream when your wife, your father, and your mother-in-law can get involved.
— Josh Kopelman
I don't know if the podcast as a medium will ever have the cultural impact that TV and movies do. It may never be super-mainstream.
— Chris Hardwick
It's better to be the largest independent band from Brazil instead of be the smallest mainstream band.
— Fernanda Takai
The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.
— Ian Schrager
I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.
— Dave Van Ronk
The mainstream thrust of anti-intellectualism, as it stands today, characterizes thinking itself as an elitist activity.
— Maggie Nelson
Electronic music is really weird right, because it is bleeding into the mainstream, but, at the same time, it's fashion.
— Nigel Godrich
You know, I am a mainstream person with mainstream tastes, and I want to hear the hits.
— Robbie Williams
Muslim communities themselves, as they expect mainstream society to stand down racists, must do more to also stand down the Islamist extremists.
— Maajid Nawaz
Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people's rights away.
— Charles Schumer
Your haters gather the most at the sidelines.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
Be out of the mainstream. I'm out of the mainstream. I enjoy it, who wants to be in the mainstream?
— Bill Maher
Addictive tech is part of the mainstream in a way that addictive substances never will be.
— Adam Alter
There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.
— Erwin W. Lutzer
I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.
— Nigel Kennedy
Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.
— Natalie MacMaster
All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.
— Ray Kurzweil
The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.
— Kate Zambreno
Less than 10% of the mainstream workforce can achieve their dreams where they currently work.
— Bill Jensen
I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.
— Flea
Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time.
— Stephen Marche
There are major advantages to remaining out of the radio for a long time before we have something that crosses into the mainstream properly.
— Andrew Wyatt
One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to.
— Robert Fisk
I've always felt quite like an outsider. I don't really belong in the mainstream, and I quite like that.
— Nick Lowe
These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.
— Imran Khan
History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable.
— David Blunkett
There is a strange depression that hangs over every little town that is no longer in the mainstream of life.
— Margaret Craven
Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.
— Rush Limbaugh
In the late '90s, R&B was dominant in the radio, and the white kids were taking it mainstream.
— Pink
I have no bones to pick and no fight with society. And I'm willing to be and interested in being in the mainstream of society.
— Christopher Reeve
I like doing the mainstream, right-down-the-pike broad comedies as much as I like doing the kind of unorthodox different stuff.
— Ryan Reynolds
Infiltrating the mainstream was a natural extension of my street art. I've always tried to communicate ideas to the public as directly as possible.
— Eric Drooker
The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs: you're their friend.
— Eileen Myles
Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.
— Joe Scarborough
Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.
— Anthony Anderson
I kind of thought, wouldn't it be funny to take a swing at being on the weird side of mainstream?
— John Mulaney
When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.
— Michel Gondry
All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.
— Dee Dee Ramone
I don't think I'm kind of universally known. I think in the indie world I'm probably better known than in some mainstream Hollywood terms.
— Steve Coogan
When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed.
— Bill O'Reilly
Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.
— Marco Rubio
Never change for the mainstream - stay in your lane, and if you're talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.
— Russell Simmons
Oftentimes you'll see stuff that makes it into the mainstream that has been influenced by things that are clearly not from the mainstream.
— Steve Buscemi
It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.
— Larry David
Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.'
— Bharati Mukherjee
We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.
— Jerry Springer
My input for the first 16, 17 years of my life was AM radio, FM radio - pretty mainstream stuff. Rolling Stone was probably as edgy as it got.
— Trent Reznor
long stories in the same series (as well as a couple of stabs at mainstream stories).
— Orson Scott Card
Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same.
— Roy L. Pickering Jr.
When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.
— Anton Szandor LaVey
I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.
— Willem Dafoe