Quotes About Media

I don't differentiate between films and TV, particularly Hindi serials.

MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.

It's hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it's like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn't go from one to the other.

I'm a hippie child of the '60s. What drives me crazy about mass media entertainment is that it's so often devoid of any ideas.

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.

I learnt a salutary lesson when I was being hired for the 'Six O'Clock News' and others were being fired, people who I thought were great, like Jill Dando. Letting her go was a big mistake, in my view. But that is probably going to be me one day - I'll read about it in the press and that will be that.

I was trying to help Gazprom Media explain why they took over NTV, a television network. If that somehow down the line helped the Kremlin, that wasn't what I was hired for.

Univision's close-to-50-year relationship with Hispanics makes us one of the leading media brands in this country and the gateway to connect with this consumer.

As one of the very few black historians who, from time to time, appears on TV, my daily life is a constant, open-air focus group.

Why do we always have to see black people in hindsight? Why are the Hollywood movies always historical? What about the contemporary image of black people?

Creating more characters that represent historically marginalized and historically disenfranchised people in television and film is certainly important.

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

Celebrity hits like a bomb.

I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to American music. It hits you in a way that's a lot purer because you are not in that culture that you're watching.

Everybody can't come to New York and take the hits, take the hits of the city, take the hits of the media, take the hits of the fans. It's real.

I enjoy 'The Apprentice' and the one that's called 'Take My Life' and the other one called 'Stop Hitting Me.'

Television is the most interesting hobby I've ever had.

People know me from a hockey game, from an earthquake, from the O.J case.

I don't think you're going to see any hockey player tell the media or anyone they're the best player in the world. It's just not who we are.

Unfortunately, everyone thought that Teri Hatcher was my wife. Matter of fact, I would be with my wife, holding my wife's hand at a football game, and someone would come up to me and say, 'Hey, I love those commercials you do with your wife.' My kids almost had shirts made up that said, 'Teri Hatcher is not my mom.'

I've been in some wonderful shows, but nothing holds a candle to 'The Larry Sanders Show.'

There's been a big black hole in the middle of the country as far as TV production goes.

I come from Holland, and there's a lot of nudity in film there.

I don't own Hollywood.