Bill Bixby Quotes

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

I avoid all the language and nudity and violence and everything. I have enough of that at home.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

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

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

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.

I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

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.

If it's something that you are opposed to or you don't want your children or family to see, then do not watch it, and the market can send a message.

TV's a pretty powerful thing.

We sort of have given up on the idea of taking any sort of personal responsibility for what we see. I don't understand it at all. There are many things that I won't let my kids watch.

I don't watch a lot of TV anymore. A lot of it isn't the kind of thing you can feel comfortable with watching with your kids. And I still feel that way even though, now, my kids are in their 30s.

Take responsibility about what you have on your TV, and about what you are out there supporting.

Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why.

Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it.

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

I'm just a regular guy. All these ideas that children shouldn't watch me, I'm going to be confusing, all this stuff, it's crazy.

I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.

Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.