Quotes About Media

Yes, I express myself through tweets and other media. But it's just because I love expressing myself; it's a non-stop urge in me.

The idea is not to reinvent myself by venturing into different media because my film career has come to a standstill, but I have the urge to interpret life through different media.

That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.

TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.

Getting involved in a newsroom and seeing how it operated and the urgency of live television really got my attention.

I love the energy and urgency of working in news.

Sometimes, I check out film sites if a friend sends me the URL.

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

The main Facebook usage is so big. About 20 percent of the time people spend on their phone is on Facebook.

'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the creation and imposition of a European superstate, one centralised in Brussels.

I got a lot of my film education from sneaking into media labs at USC. I probably owe USC a lot of money.

About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It's something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public.

You gotta do what you gotta do. And I had to figure that out, and I used to - I couldn't stand the media, but I realized they have a job. They gotta do what they have to do.

In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.'

I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to.

When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudonymous - and I thought that real identity should play a bigger part than it did.

Reality TV has totally destroyed soap operas. They're gone. They used to be the biggest thing in the world - they're gone.

A lot of queer characters get painted with either a caricature brush, or they're used to teach, in a way.

I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.

I don't give interviews on Chanel because it is not useful for the Chanel business.

I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that.

As long as it is supported by Democratic politicians and by liberal Hollywood players, censorship is a useful tool to stifle dissent.