Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.

Whenever there's a new form of media, we always think it's going to replace the old thing, and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was introduced.

The film business has changed so dramatically from when I started.

The Internet has been a godsend and a nightmare for the music industry.

I don't really play games and don't know much about them, but my son certainly does.

TV has made us get down to the nub and new films will begin to live up to what the medium can be.

There are certain ways, narrative forms, that do not function as a continuation, for example, of 3D movies. You see, what is obvious to me is virtual reality or immersive 360 degrees virtual reality is not somehow a part of 3D movies, and it is not a new form of video games, it's neither, it is something completely new, something different, and nobody has come up yet with real convincing content.

If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words.

The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.

I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.

Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children.

I think it's harder for each generation. Even I just feel completely separate from teenagers today who have access to the Internet. And I'm amazed that this interest in video games has never gone away. It just keeps growing.

I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.

I am available for children's parties, by the way.

New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.

When kids can't come to my show, I feel bad, because grown-up 21 and up people really probably don't need my help as much as an 11-year-old child.

We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates because of video games.

I think that if someone plays a video game, and then goes out and harms another human being, or themselves because of what they just saw in the video game, they were screwed up in the head long before they got their hands on a controller.

Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.

Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.

I don't know what's going on with new media and digital stuff. It's all changing.

I'm still kind of nerdy about video games, but I've had to take a little bit of a step back. I was really not getting a lot of things done in life because I was playing so much Destiny. I loved it, but I've gotta prioritize.

The other video game adaptation I did was Mortal Kombat, and I did that because I loved playing the games in the arcade. I play all of the Resident Evil games because I'm very much immersed in that world.

And as long as America must choose, that long will there be a need and a place for the Democratic Party. We Democrats can run on our record but we cannot rest on it. We will win if we continue to take the initiative and if we carry the message of hope and action throughout the country. Alexander Smith once said, 'A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.' Let us continue to plant, and our children shall reap the harvest. That is our destiny as Democrats.

I'm lucky that so many children visit my website. At least I get to talk with them that way.