Goodman Ace Quotes

TV is one of the biggest mediums, and over time, it will get bigger.

MTV and video games have solved that problem as far as most of humanity goes. That, and telly, as it were.” “Telly?” Who was that? He grunted in amusement. “Television, of course. Don’t you speak English?” “You sure don’t,” I muttered. Shaking his head, he frowned at me.

When television is good, nothing - not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers - nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there for a day without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

Sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit-and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you—and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight.

Sooner or later, everything turns into television.

Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.

Television leaves no external scars.

Television is the medium of the 20th century.

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.

'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only.

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

Does 'Jersey Shore' make me sad for humanity that this is what's passing for entertainment? Well, this is a business, and if that's what millions of people want to watch, I can't fault someone for producing it.

The nature of television - it's quicker than both a play and a movie.

I love watching TV.

TV is just an incredible media.

TV has changed everything.

I came up during the formative years of TV.

I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers.

A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.