Edward Ruscha Quotes

I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to.

I'm pretty much out of popular culture altogether.

I'm fairly out of the loop when it comes to pop culture.

In the '80s, I was the only one who didn't watch the shows about teenagers. I had to go over to friends' houses to see them. I still don't have a TV!

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.

I usually live in my own ignorant, pop-culture bubble, so I don't really know what people are doing.

I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, 'I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!' is so sociologically fascinating that I think I'd better watch.

I don't read the papers or watch TV.

I don't go to movies, I don't own a television, I don't buy magazines and I try not to receive mail, so I'm not really aware of popular culture.

I don't watch TV or movies or play video games.

Well, do I think watching 35 hours of TV a week is a terrific thing to do? Not particularly. But do I think you're shutting yourself off from a lot of American culture if you are so completely isolated from what goes on, on popular TV? Yeah, you are!

I never really grew up watching TV.

Culture is this thing that exists apart from our real life but is something we all have tacitly agreed to in America. And what film and television do, particularly in this country, is lay out the characters involved in this invisible agreement and dictate who and what can participate.

Ninety-nine percent of television shows, I've never seen.

I haven't reported in grand detail on rituals of American life, road journeys or malls or the death of steel-manufacturing towns. I think this is because I feel a degree of alienation that I cannot combat.

I don't read the newspapers, to be quite honest with you.

Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.

Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.

I should watch network television, or daytime television, because I'm not sure who all these people are who keep getting referred to in blogs and newspapers. I better get myself culturally attuned.

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

I agree when people say TV is regressive. I would go back to TV only for the money.

I think pop culture has always influenced society.

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

You will see nowadays TV's Top 20 and Radio's Top 20 tend to be the same. And then there are films that never reach to mass audience, and because of that, their soundtrack also dies a silent death.

I have grown up in a small city where watching TV is a ritual and Balaji has defined TV in so many ways.