David Grossman Quotes

The media can be challenging, but at the same time, without the media, I would not have been able to share my personal story. Often the media can bring beauty and encouragement to people's lives...

We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

Nothing is really real unless it “happens” on television…Television has brought an inversion of our consciousness. When we take our eyes off the tube, we see things that are not quite authentic – or rather, which gain authenticity only by their resemblance to how things happen on television

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

If you could place blame on entertainment for all the crimes people commit, you'd be in court all the livelong day.

As much as we try to deny it, media plays a huge part in how we view the world.

I used to believe that we could change the media. I was as naive as anybody.

A first hint of the power of the electronic media to bring disaster directly into living rooms came with the radio broadcast of the explosion of the zeppelin "Hindenburg," in 1937 . . .

If it doesn’t happen on television, it doesn’t happen.

Media creates awareness [and] ensures transparency and accountability.

What we watch on television, we approve.

Television changes you. Therefore it is important what you watch and when you watch.

The Press has not only a great influence over our manners and morals, but contributes largely to our pleasures.

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

I think the media could be a very good force for good, and I think Hollywood can, as well.

People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television.

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

What is the consequent effect on a society of beings looking for themselves in the myths on the screen? It's safe to say that they have failed us, but I can't help it... I love Movies.

Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.

Playing a cop on TV and working closely with actual cops on set, I do think the media does a disservice to our first responders.

The impact of the Vietnam War on TV made everyone recognize the importance of visual media.

The media paint ugly pictures about you.