David Lynch Quotes

Violent content on television is more dangerous to children than indecency.

Our children are being fed a daily dosage of violence …. I know this stuff sells, but that doesn't make it right.

Why on earth does anybody watch that stuff [television violence]?

There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people through vicious and violent video games.

In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.

We see death constantly on film.

I don't see on television the kind of blood and guts and body parts blown apart that maybe you're referring to, but it certainly is in that BATMAN feature and I found it very offensive.

Most screen violence is tedious.

A movie that gets a PG-13 rating can show someone running down a street killing 27 people. And there are no repercussions.

No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys.

All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.

No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded

We have to ask people who produce things [entertainment] to consider their consequence—especially with children.

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

Television is the medium through which society communicates its democratic values.

Radio and films, and now television, open for us a window onto everything that goes on throughout the world: the events—and the ideas too—of all humanity invade our homes day after day

The fact that television is raising our moral conscience is a good thing.

If you see anything scary on television, you can turn it off.

What we watch on television, we approve.

The [motion picture] screen will most securely establish itself as an accepted and useful factor in national life in proportion as it shall recognize its duty …

Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment.

I believe the entertainment industry cannot portray on film people gunned down in cold blood, in living color, and not have it affect the attitudes and thoughts of some of the people who see it... I believe that the desensitizing effect of such media abuses on the hearts and souls of those who are exposed to them results in a partial fulfillment of the Savior's statement that 'because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold'.

Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.

I loved Batman, don't get me wrong, but that kind of mindless violence is not good for young children.

We need the media as the foundation of functioning institutions.