Kurt Loder Quotes

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

Television is as much a part of my journey as film.

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 suppose I was formed by too many movies and too much television. At some point I absorbed the dramatic formula.

I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

I think readers are always patient. Look at the 'Harry Potter' series. Some have given up on this generation of kids as game and TV addicts, but lots of people spend lots of time patiently reading through hundreds of pages of dense prose. I think reading a comic by comparison is a lot more immediate.

Whether one likes it or not, the screen is a profoundly important source of imagery and storytelling for this generation. For me, books remain a stunning place to tell stories, but the screen has a place.

Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen.

I didn't look at any of the newspapers, I look at the pictures sometimes, but apart from that I don't read them.

Television is intensely personal.

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids reading by badmouthing other entertainment. Admit that TV and games can do things books can't.

I got into television because I hated it so. I thought, there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.

I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.

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

I have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I had a father who said, 'I hate television;' it came into being when he was a kid, and he didn't have it, so he didn't think I needed it.

It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.

For three or four decades, we've been sitting here in front of this TV consuming a one-way medium that we had no control over.

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

Entertainment and information work well together.

Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.

Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.