Robert Knepper Quotes

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

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

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

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

My kids haven't watched one episode of 'Growing Pains'. I'll tell you why. When our kids were little, we never wanted Mommy or Daddy to be the celebrity mom or dad to our kids.

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.

Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

I suppose that when I'm building a character, it's usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well as how I grew up - that nurture side.

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

Television changes you. Therefore it is important what you watch and when you watch.

I never really grew up watching TV.

When you're a kid, you learn whatever your parents think until you start taking in media. Because all your friends are your age as well, media is the third parent that you ever have. So I think about that a lot, what visual imagery is teaching us, and media in general having a huge impact.

Although my dad's a writer, we grew up in a telly-watching household. I never found him disparaging about television.

A lot of things come down to your roots and how you're brought up.

I think I got my education as a young boy from things I saw on TV.

I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.

I don't watch the media that much.

I was raised, I feel like, on television, definitely a child of TV, and was always fascinated by storytelling.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it.

People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won't stop them, as long as they're passionate about it.