Jerry Lewis Quotes

I think the media is a real demon.

I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.

What we watch on television, we approve.

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

I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.

Politicians need a film appreciation course.

I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, 'the press.'

I've avoided doing network shows because I don't think they're true to real families.

All you see on television are debased images.

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

I don't like everybody who I see on TV.

Television is a very highly constructed, and edited, and censored, and tailored, and marketed reality. But I'm not judgemental about it. I don't have anything against television. I just personally don't feel curious.

I think a lot of TV insults the audience.

When I watch TV, I'm embarrassed by some of what's on.

Notwithstanding the likes of 'All the President's Men' in the 1970s or HBO's recent 'The Newsroom,' film and TV have always loved to hate the press.

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.

Sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit-and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you—and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

Past occurrences have generally shown that there hasn’t been satisfaction from politicians in the manner they were covered [by the press.]

The media are a bunch of maggots…. I don't smoke crack cocaine!

Avoid both infatuation with or resentment of the press.

I think we're living, in terms of media, in a very democratic age, but I think that we still look at everything through the lens of 'Vogue' and through our own point of view.

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.

Certainly no man could be such an irredeemable 'schlub' as the American press portrays its losers.

To be critical of television is almost like questioning the fact of God's existence.