Jeremy Sumpter Quotes

The impact of T.V. on our lives in general gets most things out of proportion.

Let’s get real. It does make a difference what children see on television.

When I went through puberty I had a huge rebellion against movies. I was so upset with how they brainwashed me that I didn't watch movies for years.

I, for one, believe TV is something you can do without - it colours the way you look at things and people. It's not the best exposure for children, growing up.

I don't watch the media that much.

Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters.

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

I think the problem with visual media like TV is that they're reductive.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

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

I grew up in South Africa without a television; there was no television, and the year after I left, television arrived in South Africa, so I have never really acquired a taste for watching television.

Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad.

Television changes you. Therefore it is important what you watch and when you watch.

As much as we try to deny it, media plays a huge part in how we view the world.

You see, the power of television cannot be underestimated.

I think there's enough TV that makes people feel dumb out there.

Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.

It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.

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.

There's a lot more people out there than you would think who cannot differentiate between TV and reality. I do think there's a lot of people out there who think I'm a nasty human being.

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it.

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