Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

Sooner or later, everything turns into television.

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

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.

When television is good, nothing - not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers - nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there for a day without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.

I was raised, I feel like, on television, definitely a child of TV, and was always fascinated by storytelling.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.

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

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 enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

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 was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

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.

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.

Television has been a powerful medium and it has been a huge part of my life at least 15 years.

TV is the most powerful medium, which has taken me right into the homes of so many people.

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

You see, the power of television cannot be underestimated.

Television has an unparalleled reach.

With TV, the most important thing is just to get people to turn it on.

Television is completely another medium.

It's a TV show. Only the emotional damage is real.

They call television a medium because nothing's well done.

Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.