Dick Cavett Quotes

I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio.

My family were symphonic musicians and in the opera. Also, it was my era, the love of radio. We used to listen to the radio at night, close our eyes and see movies far more beautiful than you can photograph.

I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips.

There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam.

I have always loved radio as a medium.

Radio is about emotion.

I listen to NPR a lot. I love that.

I think the radio is kind of cool, because you're really free to do whatever you want, because you can go into another world. Whereas in TV, you have to make that world.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you've got to create it.

I love the magic of movies and television, and I always have since I was kid.

As a kid I loved to listen to the radio, later I became a radio artiste and would listen to the BBC.

Part of what I love about television is that my imagination gets to keep going. It doesn't stop.

Radio is in my blood.

And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing.

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.

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.

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape.

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be.

All of Wes Anderson's films are confections, memoirs created in cinematic snow globes, with the subtext that memory is the most extraordinary confection of all.

This was the 1940s; there was no television. It was a different age - it was not swamped by media; it was swamped by reality, and storytelling was a very big art where I came from.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.