Jenny Han Quotes

I think the problem with visual media like TV is that they're reductive.

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.

That's the power of television. You come into people's homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of intimacy.

I do think we have a responsibility to be aware of the stories we're telling and how those stories will be interpreted and what sorts of value systems we're celebrating.

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

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

You often forget, because you're so inside it, that television has power.

It's very important that we give a voice to the voiceless in terms of media; because media is a global phenom and it portrays you dependent upon what controls you have and the writers are doing great work.

I don't underestimate audiences' intelligence. Audiences are much brighter than media gives them credit for. When people went to a movie once a week in the 1930s and that was their only exposure to media, you were required to do a different grammar.

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 was raised, I feel like, on television, definitely a child of TV, and was always fascinated by storytelling.

What we view in the media - and who presents it to us - does so much to determine how we think, how we feel about ourselves, and how we view the world.

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

TV and film has defined my entire life.

What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.

Entertainment is one of America's greatest exports. And the stories that we tell about people inform the world about how to think about people.

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

When a medium like games or comic books whips up such a rapture of enthusiasm, naturally we look for lessons we should be learning.

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.

Lots of boys pick strong messages about who they are and who they want to be from the media.

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

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

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

People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.

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