Wyatt Cenac Quotes

I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

You often forget, because you're so inside it, that television has power.

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them and is supposed to be funny, what you'll notice is that they don't laugh.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

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.

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

People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.

if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

Gene Roddenbury felt that television was being wasted. That it had the potential for enlightenment and even inspiration.

I don't know if I trust entertainment to teach anyone anything.

That's the power of television. You come into people's homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of intimacy.

I think the media could be a very good force for good, and I think Hollywood can, as well.

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.'

What is the consequent effect on a society of beings looking for themselves in the myths on the screen? It's safe to say that they have failed us, but I can't help it... I love Movies.

You see, the power of television cannot be underestimated.

Television opens up some bloody great doors. That's the plus. The minus is the attention it brings.

Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.