Martin Mull Quotes

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

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

Everyone is an expert on T.V., just as he is on education; everyone has some education and a T.V. set.

I think I got my education as a young boy from things I saw on TV.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.

America has a love-hate relationship with celebrity. We love to follow celebrities, but we also love to mock them. And secretly, we believe we're better than they are.

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.

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

The impact of T.V. on our lives in general gets most things out of proportion.

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.

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

Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of 'The Simpsons.' This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it.

In 1986, human nature in America started to change. That year, 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' based in Chicago, became nationally syndicated, and the country entered the beginning stages of a quiet cultural revolution.

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

I got an early education from television.

The truth of television is that what people see, they believe.

No American parent should be forced to compete with popular culture to raise his children.

The Press has not only a great influence over our manners and morals, but contributes largely to our pleasures.

The Pulpit, the Press, and the Novel—these undisputedly are the great molders of public opinion and public morals to-day.

In the fact that 'Vogue' is someone that can help guide enormous audiences through this fascinating world, I would like to think we are as influential and actually are now reaching so many more people than we ever dreamt of back in the Fifties or the Sixties.

I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.

TV has always been a very strong and powerful medium for women.

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