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Daily Inspiration Quote by Lisa Bonet

"I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed"

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There is a particular kind of 90s-to-now celebrity frustration baked into Lisa Bonet's line: the sense that Hollywood is both a megaphone and a landfill, and that being inside the machine doesn’t automatically grant you the power to clean it up. She starts with a simple flex - "I'm writing a film" - then immediately widens the frame to "our access to these powerful media", positioning herself less as a lone artist than as part of a cohort that has finally gotten close enough to the controls to do something with them.

The word "take over" is doing double duty. On the surface, it’s ambition. Underneath, it’s a corrective to the soft, polite language women in entertainment are often expected to use when they want change. Bonet rejects "let's improve representation" talk for something closer to a coup: if the output is "disgusting", the problem isn’t taste; it’s governance.

"Put out there now to be consumed" lands like a diagnosis of the audience relationship as much as the industry’s. Content isn’t shared, it’s fed. The subtext is that mainstream media has trained people to accept a narrow menu - sensationalism, objectification, empty spectacle - and to confuse availability with value. Bonet’s intent reads less like moral panic than cultural self-defense: reclaiming narrative as a way to stop being packaged by other people’s imaginations. The context is an actress signaling a shift from being cast to being an author, and implying that authorship is the only real leverage in a system that sells images first and excuses later.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Bonet, Lisa. (2026, January 16). I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-writing-a-film-with-our-access-to-these-120437/

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Bonet, Lisa. "I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-writing-a-film-with-our-access-to-these-120437/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-writing-a-film-with-our-access-to-these-120437/. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.

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Lisa Bonet

Lisa Bonet (born November 16, 1967) is a Actress from USA.

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