Sanjay Leela Bhansali Quotes

What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

If it's something that you are opposed to or you don't want your children or family to see, then do not watch it, and the market can send a message.

Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.

I don't watch a lot of TV anymore. A lot of it isn't the kind of thing you can feel comfortable with watching with your kids. And I still feel that way even though, now, my kids are in their 30s.

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.

Take responsibility about what you have on your TV, and about what you are out there supporting.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

I'm afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad, school, police, church who used to set the standards, now it's tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live.

I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?

So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?

Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!

It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.

I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended.

In a day when broadcasters and publishers have rather free access into our homes, we must seek clean, uplifting entertainment, whether on television, videos, movies, magazines, books, and other printed material. We should be very selective and choose only those things that meet the test of being virtuous, lovely, of good report, or praiseworthy.

We need to take on Hollywood. They are poisoning the minds of our kids.

I apologize for what the media has done.

The Israeli media are very important to me. I've been part of them and they a part of me all my adult life.

If you could place blame on entertainment for all the crimes people commit, you'd be in court all the livelong day.

People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television.

Cable television is such a part of our society now. Oftentimes, the shows are really good, and you're just like, 'Well, it's worth sitting through the sex and violence because the narrative is so great.'

I don't think we treat people very well in the media, both as customers - and I call them customers - of newspapers and magazines, or TV news, and we don't understand that the greatest story that we could tell, each and every day, is the story of the people around us.

I'm not worried by politics: I'm worried about the media.

We in the media accept the responsibility of what we do.