Bernard Cornwell Quotes

I can't understand why TV tries to appeal to youth.

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

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.

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.

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.

Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

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

What we watch on television, we approve.

There's no way that any tabloid can survive if it doesn't get women to read it.

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

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.

Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.

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

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

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.

Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.

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

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

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

I'm afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad, school, police, church who used to set the standards, now it's tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live.

TV and film has defined my entire life.