Patricia Highsmith Quotes

I don't watch television. I know better than that.

I don't even own a television. I'm proud of that.

I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.

I'm not really a child of this '120 TV channels, a billion websites' era. I tried to live that for a long time but recently realized I don't get anything from it. I told myself it was luxury, but it was really only annoying. I'd rather just watch the same 50 movies over and over.

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

You know, I don't watch television! Sorry! I actually don't even have a television. I don't, I really don't. It's nuts, but it's true.

I have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I had a father who said, 'I hate television;' it came into being when he was a kid, and he didn't have it, so he didn't think I needed it.

I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had television in my home.

You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house.

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.

Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.

There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.

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.

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

So many of our enormous emotional crises are lived through the media. They're lived through movies; they're lived through what we watch on television - they're not actual events in our life.

I don't listen to music. I don't watch television, I don't read.

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

There's no way that any tabloid can survive if it doesn't get women to read it.

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

In general, both in Spanish and English, the quality of the entertainment media is horrible.

I'm the same way with the media as I am to everyone else.

Films do have a very big impact on the youth, but the youth do have the quality to differentiate what is right and what is wrong!

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.

It's difficult to get away from the media, from social media. It's a big thing in society and in football, in particular.

People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television.