Christopher Eccleston Quotes

I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I'm still bankable.

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

'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.

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

Television is the medium through which society communicates its democratic values.

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.

I try to have my voice be heard, but not on a regular basis on TV.

Perhaps the most important people that I should photograph are the people who don't have a voice.

All you see on television are debased images.

I tend to focus on young people and on giving a voice to groups of people who don't normally get their voices heard.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV.

I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.

I think social media has amplified a lot of voices that maybe traditional media hasn't perfectly portrayed.

Television is generally on the conservative side, so if you're seeing it represented on TV, that probably means it's really out there in the real world.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

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

During the last 20 years the advent of radio changed all the old rules of political campaigning. Now the successful advent of television, available for the first time this year in a presidential campaign, must again influence the planning of the campaign. Television, with its triple advantages of sight, sound and motion, can make or break a candidate, a party or a platform. In my opinion television must not be considered as supplementary media but as the heart of your program to “win friends and influence people.”

The truth of television is that what people see, they believe.

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.

If it doesn’t happen on television, it doesn’t happen.

That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

Everyone is an expert on T.V., just as he is on education; everyone has some education and a T.V. set.

I feel like the world that ' Condor' lives in is very close to the world we're all living in every day.