Quotes About Media

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.

If you think the movie moguls are worried about the possible disastrous effects of TV, you ought to hold the head of a radio exec for a while,

Some of our triggers have been tagged by the British media "hurry sickness." As one columnist wrote, "People who tap their fingers impatiently as they wait for the microwave to finish or huff and puff while their computer starts up could have the latest malady to modern living — 'hurry sickness.'"13 We live life at such a fast pace that if something does not happen quickly enough, we can become indignant and sometimes enraged.

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.

The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information.

I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time -- 'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town!

Bearing all this in mind, I prepared my own triple phrased slogan. Three words and three phrases: Distrust the government Avoid mass media Fight the lies

Distrust the government Avoid mass media Fight the lies

We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

I thought Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful woman in the world and Elizabeth Taylor breathtaking. But when I see myself on the screen I say: 'Oh shoot! What are they talking about?'

The media create this wonderful illusion-but the amount of airbrushing that goes into those beauty magazines-the hours of hair and makeup! It's impossible to live up to, because it's not real.

Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.

We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

Starlets were always turning up dead in people's pools. They fished them out like goldfish. Nobody seemed to find it unusual that so many young, beautiful women wanted to die.

I don't read the news anymore because I know it would make me depressed. So instead, I make beauty. I make movies.

The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world.

Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants.

I try not to read best-dressed lists or anything like that.

Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.

I think the best person in her [Hillary Clinton's] campaign is mainstream media.