Brad Bird Quotes

You could go to Estonia and there's probably an episode of 'Seinfeld' playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.

Television has an unparalleled reach.

Movies were the biggest influence on me when I was a kid.

Television has been very good to me. I grew up on it, and it had quite an impact on me. I'm entertaining opportunities that are coming my way.

Television is simply automated daydreaming.

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

Lots of boys pick strong messages about who they are and who they want to be from the media.

Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.

Nothing is really real unless it “happens” on television…Television has brought an inversion of our consciousness. When we take our eyes off the tube, we see things that are not quite authentic – or rather, which gain authenticity only by their resemblance to how things happen on television

Let’s get real. It does make a difference what children see on television.

If it doesn’t happen on television, it doesn’t happen.

What we watch on television, we approve.

Television is the medium through which 80 percent of the people see their leaders….They get all their information about their government and their leaders from television.

I grew up watching television. I'm a television addict. I had all these heroes, but they didn't look like me.

Television was essentially my college.

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

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

When I was a kid, my heroes were not baseball players nor movie stars. My knights in shining armor were film critics.

Looking at magazines and being someone who wanted to act, as a kid, I was very much influenced by things I saw.

I'm a huge fan of television, and the reason I'm a part of the world is because I'm a fan of it.

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

I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason, movies exist in a world where there's no pop culture.