Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

I'm obsessed with media and news. I could watch it all day.

It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away.

I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, 'I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!' is so sociologically fascinating that I think I'd better watch.

And you see many people just turning away from these channels of mass media, and they're just turning in to alternative providers, because they just see what's happening.

I don't watch TV. I don't listen to radio.

I only know what I read in the papers.

Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen.

I don't watch the media that much.

Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

I don't think about the media.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

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.

I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

Television is a young person's medium.

There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem.

I read the paper pretty much every day, as well as getting news from the Internet and on TV. But I don't do social media at all; I'm a Luddite from that point of view.

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

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

There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there's just millions of voices and people want to be heard.

Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.