Raoul Peck Quotes

If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.

Well, I'm a consumer as well. I go to the movies with my popcorn and believe everything I see.

Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.

I have a 6-year-old daughter, and we never look through magazines. But when we're on a plane, that's the one time we have screen-time and magazine-time sometimes. And I do not open a magazine with her without saying: 'Now remind me, are these real pictures?'

I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.

Commercial television has underestimated the intelligence of the public.

It's more necessary than ever before to ensure that discernment and the development of a critical mind guide our take on the world and inform our relationship to the media and information.

As a reader and as a viewer, usually when I watch a movie, I'm caught up enough in the movie that I'm not breaking it down to the details anyway.

I still quite enjoy watching Fox News because I think it makes me think through my arguments and make sure I'm on the right side.

You can't be a passive recipient of images, you have to engage with images and read their subtexts. These are critical things that will be taught to the students by a film club.

I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

People think I watch TV too much, but they are wrong. There is a huge difference between merely "watching" TV and learning to respond aggressively to it. The difference, for most people, is the difference between the living and dying of their own brains.

People have a responsibility, especially with today's media, to read between the lines.

By giving students the proper tools to analyze the media they consume, we can empower them to make informed decisions.

The best way is not to read as much from the media and what they write.

The more I watched cable, the more I realized the value of newspapers.

At the age of 19 I made a choice not to read anything that's written about me. I just don't touch it because it's not good for you.

I think one thing that's always a concern to me is you see a role, and you're not seeing the character; you're seeing so-and-so do it. Then I'm taken out of the story considerably, personally.

I don't really try to take notice of all the media. I just try to stay focused on my game.

I'm very careful with my media intake. I try and monitor it pretty carefully.

I hope 'Split Image' educates.

I don't like watching things where I think the people onscreen are ahead of me or assuming I know something that I don't know.

I think there is a danger when it comes to fake news because there is some fake news out there, but there's also a danger when you only hear back to you the beliefs you already have.

I know journalists like to think that they are read by people like me, but I don't read them.