Quotes About Media

The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials!

Too much TV hurts movies.

Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad.

I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.

Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.

Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil.

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

Nothing you see on TV is real.

If you can't see, you can't be. If we don't see BAME people on the TV, or in film, we become invisible.

It's not easy to do morning TV. A lot of people think you just show up and be yourself, but one of the hardest things to do is be yourself when the camera comes on.

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.

TV rots your brain.

Overnight ratings are dead. It's just not the way TV is sold any more.

Lauren Conrad has been described as one of the first people to significantly benefit from the popularity of reality TV.

They don't tell you how to be on TV - they put the camera on you, and they turn it on, and you sink or swim.

I realize that I'm not going to be doing interviews for the cover of 'GQ' for the rest of my life, know what I mean? I'm on TV because I play basketball really well.

The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great deal of precision and accuracy. Often a description of that sort, which will work in a book because people can read it slowly - they can turn the pages back and so on - doesn't really work on TV because it interrupts the flow of the moving image.

It was horrible having to watch myself on TV. I think I would have had a much better time if I didn't take it so seriously.

As you know, on live TV, sometimes you don't always say things perfectly.

Not to say there's not good TV out there, but I think TV is better when it accurately reflects the world as it is.

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics.

TV is a medium where I've been an outsider for the most part.

Well, you know, News Corp is the only real media global - that has a global presence that's involved in TV production, in movies, in publishing, in newspapers, digital media, et cetera. So for a company like that to function, clearly it does not depend only on Rupert Murdoch or James Murdoch.