Ronald Frame Quotes

If a Martian came down to Earth and watched television, he'd come to conclusion that all the world's society is based on Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. He'd be amazed that our society hasn't collapsed.

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.

The entertainment industry has an effect on social consciousness.

I think pop culture has always influenced society.

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style.

Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.

In the past, modeling influences were largely confined to the styles of behavior and social practices in one's immediate community. The advent of television vastly expanded the range of models to which members of society are exposed day in and day out.

I love the mall, and I love Howard Stern and Oprah.

Much of reality TV has been like the worst nightmares of Theodor Adorno and Jean Baudrillard come true, its seductive allure turning us into gossips in the global village.

The modern holy trinity is money, sex and celebrity.

Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.

We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.

the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.

There's a TV element to everything in my eyes.

I don't think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.

Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad.

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.

I have long believed that celebrity, the way we worship and package and sell our pop stars, is what filled the need for gods that was once filled by the pictures in stained glass. Hollywood is post-Christian Venice - in other words, a pantheon of saints without the hassle and heartache of religion.

Television is generally on the conservative side, so if you're seeing it represented on TV, that probably means it's really out there in the real world.

Television is the first truly democratic culture—the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.