Michael Medved Quotes

Sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit-and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you—and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

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

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

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.

I humbly apologise for reality Television.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

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

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

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

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.

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

Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.

TV and film has defined my entire life.

Television is a young person's medium.

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.

'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

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.

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

I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft.

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.

I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are, but they're all in general usage.