Sonoya Mizuno Quotes

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

I have no interest in changing Hollywood. Hollywood is a place so consumed by the spirit of the world that I don't even want to try to think about how to infiltrate that.

On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking.

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

Hollywood likes to put out their own message out a lot of times, and that message isn't the best one for everyone.

We talk about the influence of the media on public opinion. But reality has some influence on public opinion too.

It really is true that when an issue becomes pop culture, it changes faster, and it's really great for the issue.

In the past, modeling influences were largely confined to the styles of behavior and social practices in one's immediate community. The advent of television vastly expanded the range of models to which members of society are exposed day in and day out.

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

The film industry is a great industry, with infinite possibilities for good and bad. Its primary purpose is to entertain people. On the side, it can do many other things. It can popularize certain ideals, it can make education palatable. But in the long run, the judge who decides whether what it does is good or bad is the man or woman who attends the movies.

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.

I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.

I think if you study people in the street today, you do sometimes feel that they have taken their behavior and their language from things that they have seen rather than read - from soap operas and movies and so on.

Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds.

Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.

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

I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

'The Cosby Show' changed America's opinion on so many different topics and opened so many people's eyes, and so you really learned immediately the power of what you were doing, that there was a power in portraying a role, and you were made aware of the effect that it could have on people, so it does raise the bar.

The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.

We are living in a time in which movies such as 'Super Size Me' and 'An Inconvenient Truth' have made box-office history, and books such as 'No Logo' and my own, 'The Silent Takeover,' are bestsellers.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

Television is generally on the conservative side, so if you're seeing it represented on TV, that probably means it's really out there in the real world.