Tanya Saracho Quotes

I have said it before and I will continue to say that I don't think art is the most effective form of protest. I don't think it changes policy; I think it changes discourse, and discourse can change ideas, and for me, that's what it's about: having that space for conversation.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

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.

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

'The Cosby Show' changed America's opinion on so many different topics and opened so many people's eyes, and so you really learned immediately the power of what you were doing, that there was a power in portraying a role, and you were made aware of the effect that it could have on people, so it does raise the bar.

Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don't have immediate access to from what they get through the media.

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change.

If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.

Stasis ... is the norm in American social policy, and innovations ... are the exceptions.

No matter what was written or what was charged, the harmful effect was largely washed away as soon as the reassuring voice of the President of the United States started coming through the ether into the family living-room.

History must only guess at the effect that television would have had during earlier conflicts over the future of the nation.

Public policies in our democracy are eventually a reflection of public opinion," so public opinion must be reshaped if we are to avoid disaster.

First radio, then television, have assaulted and overturned the privacy of the home, the real American privacy, which permitted the development of a higher and more independent life within democratic society. Parents can no longer control the atmosphere of the home and have lost even the will to do so.

It's really important that policy be properly designed. It's not enough just to.. .get angry over a subject.

Media truly has the power to create and shift culture.

I don't get bothered by the media. There is nothing in the media that makes me lose any sleep at night.

It's hard not to look at the road of the media and how the media is a big part of painting a picture for public opinion.

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.

Protest is, at its core, designed to move policy.

The entertainment industry has an effect on social consciousness.

Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.

You can see it with social media and things like that, back in the day it was harder to convince people that the police are wrong, which sounds crazy, but that's how it was back then.