Bonnie Hammer Quotes

Television is a young person's medium.

We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

Artists like Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga have more sway over popular minds than a politician.

Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are, but they're all in general usage.

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.

Hollywood likes to put out their own message out a lot of times, and that message isn't the best one for everyone.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

I like the Kardashians. I watch 'em. When Kim got the botox in her face, and it made her face go weepy, that was funny. I also watch 'America's Next Top Model.' I've always been a big fan.

The newspapers and magazines, the theaters and the social reform movements, are more and more made for a public which looks only to be entertained and which has lost the power of sustained attention.

It really is true that when an issue becomes pop culture, it changes faster, and it's really great for the issue.

Pop culture is a huge strategy for WWE: our storylines are reflective of what's happening in the world and what's popular.

There is a renaissance of really great genre entertainment happening. But it's become incredibly audience-specific.

I think Hollywood acts like followers of culture and is constantly seeking to follow trends.

Television really has been responsible for everything that I've done successfully.

For years, the defenders of television have argued that the networks are only giving the people what they want. That might be true. But so is the Medellin cartel.

The way you raise the profile of an issue is by making the issue cool and relevant in pop culture.

For me, pop culture is very fluid: it's music, it's movies, it's books, it's art, it's tech, it's so many things - and as marketing and brand advocates, we should be able to to take products and services and match them to what's happening in pop culture.

We have been influenced by you in the U.S. a lot. Not because anybody exerted pressure on us - if anyone puts pressure on us, we go the other way. But if you put a movie in the cinema and I watch it, I will be influenced.

TV is the most powerful medium, which has taken me right into the homes of so many people.

Films are the largest and most impactful medium.