Quotes About Media

All of my videos, everything I upload is short and edited.

I don't think music videos are as important as they used to be.

I don't watch a whole lot of television, to be honest, but I do miss music videos.

I think music videos in particular and film in general - it's really good at communicating tone and feeling.

You have to remember, videos were on the rise back when we did 'Take On Me.'

You know, I don't sit here and watch, uh, I don't watch CMT videos and listen to country radio all the time.

I am fine if videos and pictures are clicked when there are legit events and interviews. If I am sitting and having a private dinner with my son, my family or my girlfriend, then I do not want it to be filmed.

I don't want to make silly videos.

I love The Onion videos, those are amazing.

I've just always been making videos. And then I just put them online and, luckily, they all took off.

I wasn't aware of social media fame, it was more just making videos with my friends.

Are all my videos a hundred percent real? Absolutely not.

These days, it's not enough for models to just do shows and photo shoots anyway, you have to be making videos and finding ways to create other content - that's what I think.

When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go; they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV.

I've been invited to appear on Letterman, but they wanted me to talk about a funny videotape of Congress. 'Bring us your outtakes!' That's not our job.

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

For thirty-five years, David Halberstam, an unsilent member of the Silent Generation, has contemplated America and its place in the world, casting his eye on big subjects - Vietnam, global economics, race, mass media, and the 1950s.

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.

If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.

It's because films like 'Selma' are so rarely made that we end up putting them under the microscope. One, maybe two, a year. As a white person, you don't have that. You have the gamut. No one says to Oliver Stone, 'Another film about Vietnam? White characters again?'

Vietnam affected everything in life while it went on. My time in the service made it clear to me that what we were being told in our newspapers and newscasts, back in the States, wasn't half the story of what was really going on.

Television and movies were our biggest teachers. When we came to the United States, the Vietnam War was just ratcheting up. And so the Asian faces that I saw on the news, they were the face of the enemy. Asian men, particularly, were either small, ineffective, or they were evil. And those messages were deeply, deeply embedded in me for many years.

One big, glaring difference I can think of between Iraq and Vietnam is the news coverage. During the Vietnam War era, you had TV coverage of the war saturating the airwaves every night, and that coverage wasn't put through a military filter at all.