Val Kilmer Quotes

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 isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

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

I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.

How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

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

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

Games have a huge impact on our society because the media plays a role in helping to shape our attitudes. So it's not just fantasy.

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.

That's the power of television. You come into people's homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of intimacy.

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

A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium - most particularly print, because that's the medium we've had the longest.

The media, and how we're taught to read it, has a huge impact on who we become as people.

You see, the power of television cannot be underestimated.

Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.

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

My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

I was raised, I feel like, on television, definitely a child of TV, and was always fascinated by storytelling.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?