Quotes About Media

People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It's generally wrong. Or oversimplified - which is sometimes useful.

News in printed form is in secular decline. However, news delivered the way consumers want it is growing and thriving.

I don't like making a film and having the actors in character too much in magazines and on the net and everything else. Because you want to keep something back.

Well, Mitt Romney is a very attractive comedic target. He's irresistible to me. I mean seriously, I want to pay less attention to him.

Men want girls. Most men want little girls. They want them in film. They want to look at them. That's all they want. An evolved man is not going to look that way.

The basic thing is, people want to get paid, so they'll say the things that get them paid, in entertainment or politics.

Is there any other industry [than the press] in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the customer what he does not want?

There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there's just millions of voices and people want to be heard.

Media does not get everything they want all the time. The Democrats certainly don't. They don't win every election, and they don't win every battle.

Scandals never stop an administration unless the media wants them to stop an administration, which means that no scandal is ever gonna stop Obama.

The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you...

Every time a Republican wins the White House, whenever Republicans win control of Congress, the Drive-Bys always claim that the message is voters want a balanced and divided government.

Pictures were made to entertain; if you want to send a message, call Western Union.

It shocks me when young kids still say, 'I want to do a magazine,'

Mass attention is almost unattainable and it's not clear that you want it.

There is no longer one way to consume TV. Some shows you want to watch live, some shows you only discover through streaming, some shows you just feel you need to DVR.

As a parent, I don't really want my child to know about all this horrible violence that people seem to be wanting to tell them every time they go to buy some candy.

The media has dubbed me as someone who can only get up for the big tournaments, and that is not who I want to be.

I do love being an actress. The other stuff, the 'fame', well - you know what? - you don't actually have to buy into it if you don't want to.

Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.

I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.

The success of the Hollywood marketing machine is to limit what we see. Not just to limit what we can see, but also to limit our expectations - to limit what we want to see.

Our glorification of violence is ripping society apart. I don't want my children exposed to it.

The journalists are poking me all the time. It's impossible for me to stop even I want to.