Mary Karr Quotes

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

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.

As much as we try to deny it, media plays a huge part in how we view the world.

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?

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

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

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

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.

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

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

When I went through puberty I had a huge rebellion against movies. I was so upset with how they brainwashed me that I didn't watch movies for years.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

I don't underestimate audiences' intelligence. Audiences are much brighter than media gives them credit for. When people went to a movie once a week in the 1930s and that was their only exposure to media, you were required to do a different grammar.

I don't watch the media that much.

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.

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.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment.

I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.

Politicians need a film appreciation course.

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

That's the scary part about TV, how you'll feel about it in six years.

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.