Michael Medved Quotes

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.

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

I hate television, but that's me. It's like sucking your thumb. It's a wonderful thing for keeping the masses enslaved.

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

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

You could go to Estonia and there's probably an episode of 'Seinfeld' playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.

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

I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

Television is a young person's medium.

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

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

It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

We are living in a time in which movies such as 'Super Size Me' and 'An Inconvenient Truth' have made box-office history, and books such as 'No Logo' and my own, 'The Silent Takeover,' are bestsellers.

Television and I grew up together.

When I was a boy, there were three influences on children. The school, the family, and the church. Now there is a fourth---television.

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.

I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television — of that I am quite sure.

I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.

I tend to think that the whole concept of, 'I saw this TV show, and someone was wearing this sweater, and now I'm going to buy that,' it's something that's been talked about for a long time, but I've never really seen it work. When people are watching an entertainment show, they want to be entertained.

Television is as much a part of my journey as film.

Artwork, films, TV - it's always informed my work, no matter what I'm working on.

I grew up in Los Angeles. I watched lots of television; I still watch lots of television.