49 quotes found
“I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.”
“The amount of coordination it takes to shoot a television show is mind-numbing. There are so many things that have to be exactly right to create the correct environment for a single shot, let alone...”
“All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?”
“He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy.”
“Of all the dramatic media radio is the most visual.”
“Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.”
“Television's compelling power is its immediacy . .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic facts and reason it emphasizes p...”
“Television is the literature of the illiterate the culture of the low-brow the wealth of the poor the privilege of the underprivileged the exclusive club of the excluded masses.”
“I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.”
“When television is good nothing is better. But when television is bad nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station sig...”
“Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.”
“Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.”
“In the age of television image becomes more important than substance.”
“Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.”
“Television has a real problem. They have no page two.”
“Good heavens television is something you appear on you don't watch.”
“Why should people pay good money to go out and see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?”
“The television commercial is the most efficient power-packed capsule of education that appears anywhere on TV.”
“Television is not the truth. Television is a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus a carnival a travelling troupe of acrobats storytellers dancers singers jugglers sideshow freaks...”
“Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good - we want it Tuesday.”
