Edwin Catmull Quotes

I grew up in front of a television. I guess I'll grow old inside of one.

Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.

Black people watch more television than anybody else, which makes it legitimate to talk about television. Its anesthetizing effect has been quite real. But that concern isn't new.

Kids aren't growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.

Largely because of television, instead of looking over into that spacious building, we are, in effect, living inside of it. That is your fate in this generation. You are living in that great and spacious building.

Actors who say they don't watch TV are stupid. I was raised by TV! And it's how I research for auditions.

I'm a TV addict.

I grew up loving TV so much. It was such an integral part of my youth, and I was completely an Emmy geek.

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.

And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992.

I hate those people who say 'I don't own a television' - I own one and I watch it whenever I can.

When television captured the popular imagination of the 1950s, a rash of movies satirized Hollywood while also mythologizing it.

I watch too much TV.

I think it's terribly important to watch TV. I think there's a sort of minimum number of hours of TV a day you ought to watch, and unless you watch three or four hours of TV a day, you're just closing your eyes to some of the most important sort of stream of consciousness that's going on!

I watch TV all the time. Everything.

'Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.

I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.

I grew up in South Africa without a television; there was no television, and the year after I left, television arrived in South Africa, so I have never really acquired a taste for watching television.

I'm a TV junkie.

I don't think a lot of people realize the influence TV has on our kids. Kids take a lot of their cues from it in their dress and their conduct.

I don't like watching television too much; it tires me out for some reason. But I saw a fair bit of 'Game of Thrones' because it was so good. I mostly watched episodes that I wasn't in.

Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.

There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watching more.

I got an early education from television.