Quotes About Media

To be critically acclaimed, to get a Grammy, to be on MTV, you gotta talk about current events. You gotta talk about controversy, just stuff people want to hear. At the same time, you gotta get a message across.

As it is, Al Jazeera is mostly funded by grants from the emir of Qatar-Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, whose family has ruled the country since the mid-1800s.

What I've found is that a lot of people in the media industry tend to use Macs because they're so good for graphics and music.

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don't have food - that's not news. This is grave. We can't rest easy while things are this way.

People gravitate to what they believe to be popular... Technology is enabling even more of that.

As somebody who works in comedy, I gravitate to the very serious, dramatic things in my consumption of media.

I don't think it's a coincidence that 'The War Room' and 'A Perfect Candidate' are films that have been consistently shown and available for rental for 20 years. These are films that are more about the moment in which they were filmed: they also have a great deal to say about larger issues about who we are as a country.

Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.

This isn't a racist, sexist, homophobic hellhole. It's the greatest country on earth. The West got this way with a whole lot of risk-taking, freedom, faith, families, and fatherhood. I'm not just going to sit by while the establishment media attacks those cornerstone values.

The Internet is the greatest thing that ever happened to the entertainment industry.

The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Bloggers are lazy and greedy.

I'm glad we're not splattered all over MTV, because I don't think that's entirely the right way to go about building a career. Look at Green Day - they were built up - and then came crashing down. The overexposure is just too much of a burnout for most people.

Sure, I might come across as an extrovert on television, but I am not a particularly gregarious person.

I always believe that expressing grief on social media isn't enough, it is very important to take some action.

I'm actually rubbish at selfies. I always feel a bit ridiculous doing it unless I'm with a bunch of friends, where I'll usually stand at the back with a huge grin on my face!

MTV rarely hires established talent. They groom nobodies that they believe in into somebodies.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

I am from the Kardashian group. We can take anything.

As long as I'm able to write across the media and across the age groups, I'm happy.

It seems that, culturally, young people function more in groups. They know each other through digital media. All the young comedy people who work in TV are really used to working at the table with lots of writers around. They're comfortable in the group; they don't assert their own egos over everyone else.

I didn't grow up watching a lot of TV.

I didn't grow up in a home that glorified Hollywood. We didn't watch TV. We didn't have a lot of magazines around.

I get pretty grumpy about TV.