Quotes About Media

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

I'm totally open to it being a movie or a television series or whatever, but truthfully, if no one wants to do it right, I'm also happy for 'Ex Machina' to only ever exist as a comic book.

When you're faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don't hold back.

The media these days are not so much interested in saying things truthfully without distortion, without misrepresentation, without ridicule.

Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin.

When I was in high school, there weren't a lot of out gay actors playing gay roles. I didn't see myself represented truthfully in the media.

Women should be portrayed as they are, authentically and truthfully.

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

Hyperbolic headlines always attract more attention than mundane truths.

Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

I am trying to make my peace with the paparazzi.

I'm not trying to make a big deal out of this. It's just the things Donald Trump says are crazy. You can't say those things. You shouldn't say those things.

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Do you know how many overweight women there are in America? There are a lot. And seeing people like me on the tube makes them feel good.

It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.

I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind.

Far too interesting are times when you wake up to find that the tube line you take to work has been blown up and people you know might be dead. Not interesting enough are times when too much stuff about county cricket makes it on to the news pages.

You know, one year with 'Glenn Campbell and his Good Time Hour' and people know you too well. To me, when someone is on the tube every day then they become ordinary.

In the rough and tumble world of business, media, or politics, the black knitted tie is indeed indispensable.

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

Whether you're talking about MSNBC or Fox or CNN, it's all about getting enough interest out there, sensationalizing the story in such a way that people are compelled to tune in.

What's great about cable is that the ceiling of expectation is lowered because fewer people have to tune in for it to be a success. You don't need 23 million people a week like you do in broadcast.

I still think what the consumers are looking for is, number one, entertainment. They want to be entertained. It can be a liberal, a libertarian, or a conservative. It can be far-left or far-right. If they are entertained, they are going to tune in.

We tune in to news companies for them to give us some sense of grounded assessment of what the truth is.