Doug Liman Quotes

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

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.

My opinion is that you cannot really blame cinema for the result of what is somebody's mindset. I think it's just entertainment. For me, I've always believed in doing things that I can sit and watch with my family. So far I think I've stuck to that, and I will also in the future.

The newspapers and magazines, the theaters and the social reform movements, are more and more made for a public which looks only to be entertained and which has lost the power of sustained attention.

As women, and as people, we're often forced to choose between pop culture and tearing down celebrities or a show about politics.

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time.

Television has been very good to me. I grew up on it, and it had quite an impact on me. I'm entertaining opportunities that are coming my way.

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.

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

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

I humbly apologise for reality Television.

Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.

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

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

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

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

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

TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.

TV and film has defined my entire life.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

Television is a young person's medium.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

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

I do show violence as entertainment. Clearly, I'd be a liar if I said I didn't.