Quotes About Media

The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV?

TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics.

The culture of critique undermines the spirit not only of people in public roles but of those who read about them, afraid to believe in anyone or anything because the next story... will tell them why they shouldn't.

I think I'm a crossover athlete to get the sport into the mainstream media.

Books are in a constant battle for attention in a very crowded media scape.

Towards the end of my career, I was thinking about going into the media world. It's crucial: with three to four years left in the game, you begin to plan for the end.

I cry at films and TV and even adverts.

When I was growing up, I wanted to see girls like me on television and in movies - strong girls who aren't crying over their relationships or whatever.

Let me be crystal clear: I love doing television.

There are many cultural scenes in Lahore, just as there are in London. And there is a celebrity culture here, just as there is in London. But in Lahore, the celebrity scene doesn't drown out the rest quite so much.

There's a curiosity about what magazine editors do, the behind-the-curtain experience.

I don't look at certain things on TV anymore. I don't listen to certain music anymore. I make sure my kids don't listen to it. It's funny because back in the days I could look at comedy shows and all kind of stuff and you didn't even realize how much cursing it had in it.

What part of media doesn't need to connect with their customers more smartly?

I think it is important for girls to see movies where it is not all just about 'the boy' or it's simply being about 'the relationship' or 'Am I pretty enough?' or 'Am I cute enough?'.

I think screenwriters, I think editors in the cutting room - they have a lot of responsibility that we don't think about, but they could cut the coverage of an Asian person to focus on a white person because, unknowingly, they think that white person has more to say or is more interesting.

I won't say bad things about Angelina Jolie 'cuz I love her.

If instantaneity is what we want, television cannot compete with cyberspace.

I tend not to read reviews; there's too much out there in cyberspace.

The sense that I get is that every election cycle, the mainstream press devolves more and more.

In the 24-hour news cycle of cable, we don't always get it right.

My opinion, having done this now for two cycles, is I think the national media really likes me and likes what I have to say. But, at the end of the day, 'He's a Libertarian,' and that denotes some loose screws, maybe.

The news can by very cyclical. The same issues are coming up over and over and over again.

This isn't really a convention, This is really an infomercial. And every night we'll have a different infomercial and people view it with a certain level of cynicism.