Victor Webster Quotes

Whatever is shown in a TV show is a reflection of society.

We, as a culture, use television as at least one of the great arbiters of truth. Even though we know it's fiction, when we see it portrayed, we believe it. We recognize it as part of our culture.

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

I always say 'The Bachelor' doesn't create and drive social issues. We're a microcosm of what's happening in the world.

The entertainment industry has an effect on social consciousness.

Popular culture is filled with girls.

If a Martian came down to Earth and watched television, he'd come to conclusion that all the world's society is based on Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. He'd be amazed that our society hasn't collapsed.

My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commercial world. He looked down on pop culture. I definitely got the impression that pop was evil and that Britney Spears was evil.

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.

Television is a young person's medium.

Social conservatives say who drives the bus.

Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.

All you see on television are debased images.

I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.

Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.

TV likes you to talk about the superficial.

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

In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

Hollywood pushes a liberal agenda to the rest of the country. And, whether we like it or not, Hollywood dictates the culture of the country.

Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.

Culture is this thing that exists apart from our real life but is something we all have tacitly agreed to in America. And what film and television do, particularly in this country, is lay out the characters involved in this invisible agreement and dictate who and what can participate.

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

If you look at pop culture as the main picture you see of black men, all these kind of threatening pictures and - I think those of us who are artists and who are in media have to think carefully about what those pictures are.

I grew up seeing so many stereotypes on TV, and I didn't want to play that as well.