George W. S. Trow Quotes

Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures.

For the past several centuries the bonding power of the family dinner table has been one of the few constants, and now it's binding no more. The potency of the media is now stronger than that of the family. The wonder is that families still exist at all, since the forces of modern life mainly all pull people away from a family centered way of life.

If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.

I don't think films in and of themselves create radical change, but I think a film can contribute to people's understanding and deepen their understanding and help contribute to a shift.

I do think American culture has shifted a little bit away from the contemplative more toward the visual, more toward the emotional, and more toward the expressive. I don't think there's a lot that can be done about that. We just have to understand that it's the product of technology and of the way people live now.

The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.

It's important to begin to even consider whether countries can become something that looks very different because people tend to take their countries for granted.

I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.

We live in an extraordinary time, in which one still has the ability to mold opinion. Also, it's up for grabs. Perceptions are up for grabs in a way that it hasn't been before, which makes it really interesting. Societies that have always defined other aspects of human experience, or histories, try to hold on to it and try to find ways to continue to be the ones who do the interpreting.

This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.

Whatever pictures are put into the world, the balance needs to be readdressed, it needs to be observed. That's why I am also really questioning what a lot of photography has done since I began. I am not saying because of me, but I mean, photographing some friends partying and publishing the pictures meant something else in '92 than it does in 2011. And I find the younger generation is not questioning this at all today.

The-one of the odd things that's going on with smoking these days is that in the '90s, smoking at movies in the '90s, there were more movies showing smoking than there were in the '60s.

If we wait for the entertainment industry to change its fundamental values, we may be waiting a long time. But we don't have to wait another day to scale back our own private consumption of television.

Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures.

Teenagers used to go to the movies to see adults having sex. Today adults go to the movies to see teenagers having sex.

What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime.

Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity.

As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it.

Female directors, directors of color are a big thing for me, which are both important voices and potent voices that need to be heard. That's how I want to engage myself as an actor going forward.

As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

I think it's important that there is a change, especially in fashion.

Niggers was the ones on the rope, hanging off the thing. Niggas is the ones with gold ropes,hanging out at clubs.

I think that the revolution in music is over, and what's left is a mop-up action. It's a matter of the news getting out to everybody else. I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It's mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that. Everything is traditionally slow - much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.

Who would have guessed that the shots heard 'round the world 225 years ago would fall on deaf ears in a nation now more sympathetic to the gun-grabbing Redcoat than the gun-bearing rebel?