Quotes About Viewing

In the 1950s and 1960s, it was a safe assumption that nearly everyone in your office had watched the same thing the previous night.

I absolutely love 'Big Brother' and 'Celebrity Big Brother' and have never missed a series - but I would never appear on them.

I'd love to see the rushes but it's just not allowed because directors and also a lot of actors feel that if they see their work, and the director likes what they're doing, the actor might try to correct their mistakes.

To be able to watch something that you start on your television that you then move to your mobile device, I think that's a big benefit for the content business.

Moms are always looking for content that's clean and fun - and that you don't mind watching over and over.

More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't.

The more people who see a film, the more life it has. But I don't like when people watch DVDs and look at two scenes, but they don't look at the whole movie. Or they sit and talk to each other. You should always watch a movie all the way through.

I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me.

It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.

Young people today, for example, often watch live television (if they watch it live at all) with both the TV and their laptops or tablet devices on.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

Why should people pay good money to go out and see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

Audiences make up their minds to see only certain films. They see the rest on cable after two weeks.

I have no idea what the economics of the movie business is, especially with all the new Amazon, Netflix, Showtime, AMC, SyFy, and HBO series. But I am intrigued with what feels like a new type of show - the six-to-eight-hour movie. It's a little too long to watch in one setting, but you can watch it over a three- to five-day period.

The love that is astir in you—raise it to its basic potency and its noblest beauty, extend it to all its dimensions, toward every manifestation of the soul that sustains the universe, whose splendor is dimmed only because of the deficiency of the person viewing it. —RABBI ABRAHAM ISAAC KOOK

My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two movies a year.

With the DVR, I was mostly writing about it as a good thing in giving us the choice of when and how to watch things. But there's what we lose in the bargain, which is the collective spectacle. 'Did you see Jay Leno last night?'

Although I've watched most of Spielberg's films, I haven't watched many animated films. I prefer reality over animation.

Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.'

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

National Geographic has awesome stuff. I like Court TV. Sometimes I'll watch Reality Mix because they have some interesting stuff on that.

Aladdin in his most intoxicated moments would never have dreamed of asking his [djinn] for [a polaroid] ... It's utterly new in concept and appearance, utilizing an utterly revolutionary flash system, an utterly revolutionary viewing system, utterly revolutionary electronics, and utterly revolutionary film structure.

Think of a dead body as if you are viewing a set of clothing, Maisie - but consider it as the attire the soul has worn for many a year. And it is clothing that has something to teach us about the man or woman under the knife.