Richard Hell Quotes

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

Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

We're just a big media family. My mom is always sending us articles throughout the day. My husband now works at Facebook... so it's just a very high-paced media culture, our texts. It's links and photos, and all hours of the day, because my dad, my brother, and I are night owls, and my mom and my husband wake up early.

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.

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

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

Television is a young person's medium.

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.

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

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

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.

It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away.

There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there's just millions of voices and people want to be heard.

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

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

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens.

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

I think the media has changed, not just in England but in the world.

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.