Nancy Mitford 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 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 was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

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.

Television really has been responsible for everything that I've done successfully.

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.

Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward.

The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

It's just amazing how television permeates the entire world from people who are just listeners and viewers to people of considerable importance who find relaxation watching television. Somebody called it a talking lamp. Television, that is.

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or television and probably television more than any medium is what influenced me as a child and formed my response to literature, story-telling and, therefore, the world around me.

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

Television and I grew up together.

Nothing is really real unless it “happens” on television…Television has brought an inversion of our consciousness. When we take our eyes off the tube, we see things that are not quite authentic – or rather, which gain authenticity only by their resemblance to how things happen on 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.

History must only guess at the effect that television would have had during earlier conflicts over the future of the nation.

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

I look at the feature films that come out, and by and large, 85 percent of them are things I wouldn't in a million years sit down and watch. The more interesting storytelling is happening on television by a long shot.

The power of story and the power of a well-crafted film or television show is really all you need to speak to people. I think Hollywood is sort of catching up to that.

It's a very powerful medium now, and should be celebrated as such, because we have the greatest television in the world.

We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain.

TV is art. It's mass art. It's accessible to the masses.

TV is the most powerful medium, which has taken me right into the homes of so many people.