Quotes About Media

I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.

I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really say about that.

It's not being marketed as a gay show by a gay person. It's just Ellen DeGeneres.

The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay.

I've been constantly under male gaze. In our movies, women are constantly objectified.

It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California.

I've always been a DVD geek and, before that, a laser disc fanatic, too.

I do consider myself a film geek. I love television and film.

Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.

I always thought marketing in general was an interesting kind of thing. I always liked commercials and billboards.

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.

Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.

The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media.

If I'm going to be using social media, it has to be in a genuine way.

If we lose the BBC it would be a disaster for the entire country. I genuinely believe that.

There's still this idea that women are over by the time they are 40, so that they can't play the love interest opposite a 50-year-old man. George Clooney is 52, but he's always on the arm of a thirt-something actress. He gets Vera Farmiga. You don't get a 50-year-old woman on the arm of a 30-year-old guy.

No astronauts look like George Clooney.

What happened between me and Vitali, and Haye and Wladimir made the Klitschkos stars in Germany.

I didn't want to go marching down the street with camera crews. Oy. To get married? Really? It seems like you have an agenda when you do it that way. I wouldn't want to get married to be an example.

You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.

Television is not a gimmick.

When I fly British Airways, I can't help but read the free Daily Mail, which makes me glad I am leaving the country.