Stephen Hunter Quotes

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

Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters.

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.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

Television's not going read stories to you.

Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.

Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?

Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.

I have been as influenced by music and films as by books.

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.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds.

Human beings need stories, and we're looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it's television, whether it's comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.

It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.

I love 'Game of Thrones' and 'Breaking Bad.'

Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically influence their behavior.

I know that movies are basically meant to be entertainment, but I'm not that interested in entertainment.

Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.

People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.

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

What we watch on television, we approve.

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