Charles Krauthammer Quotes

I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.

I think violence has always been popular, way before movies started being made.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

How did we go - in a relatively short amount of time - from Audrey Hepburn to Kim Kardashian? I don't know how that happened. Like did we all collectively slip and hit our heads as a society? Why are we accepting garbage as nourishment? I don't know what's going on.

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.

It's a blessing to be a part of television shows that were, to a certain extent, staples in a lot of people's lives and as far as their entertainment lives.

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.

The newspapers and magazines, the theaters and the social reform movements, are more and more made for a public which looks only to be entertained and which has lost the power of sustained attention.

We need to take on Hollywood. They are poisoning the minds of our kids.

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

We have pleaded to the entertainment industry to raise their standards and protect our children.

Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment.

The last time I was in a Marshals' office, they had a poster of 'Justified' up. I asked them, 'Did you know I was coming by, so you put up a poster of the show?' And they said, 'Oh, we all love it... you guys make us look good.' I thought, this is great. If they like it, we really did something here.

Television really has been responsible for everything that I've done successfully.

Political culture has become popular culture.

I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.

'Duck Dynasty' is a ridiculous show, and long may it wave. America and democracy will endure. They've seen a lot worse.

I get tempted to do a reality show because I enjoy them so much.

MTV ruined music for us.

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

Entertainment is very close to religion in this country. If you buy the hype, it can be very dangerous.

Each generation wants their own form of entertainment and their own form of storytelling.

I think we have too much violence in wrestling, on TV in general, and society as a whole.

Gleeful, unembarrassed ruthlessness, once rightly kept in check, has become normal among us, and 'Game Of Thrones' is a success because this change is now more or less complete.

You have not just weekly ratings, but minutes where they say during a show, 'This guy's boring, get him off.' This has produced a thing in our society where we have no shame and the worst offense is to be boring.