Michael Medved Quotes

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.

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.

Television is the medium through which society communicates its democratic values.

If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them and is supposed to be funny, what you'll notice is that they don't laugh.

Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

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

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 got into television because I hated it so. I thought, there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.

Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!

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.

I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended.

I would wish eventually to be able to make television that informs and educates as well as entertains.

I spend way too much time watching television, going to sports games, going to movies. It struck me that there's an awful lot of data in the public domain for these sectors. The movie industry publishes weekly sales numbers - not many industries do.

I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch way too much TV.

Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.

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

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

Parents should be allowed to choose which cable or satellite channels - sources of the most extreme content - come into their homes.

I am not looking at my TV show to change the world.

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 have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

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 regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.