Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

Normally I'm not like a big TV person. I never use my DVR.

People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.

What hasn't surprised me is that audiences, as we found starting with box sets, want control, to decide how they watch it. Appointment viewing is slowly being put slightly behind.

There is no longer one way to consume TV. Some shows you want to watch live, some shows you only discover through streaming, some shows you just feel you need to DVR.

Kids don't even know what it means that you have to watch a show on Thursday night at 9 o'clock, on any given network. You just put it on your DVR, or queue it up on your computer, and it's an on-demand and instant access world.

I just don't watch a lot of TV.

Television is an isolating experience, sadly enough. I'm sorry to say it. But as good as it ever gets, it's still isolating. You sit in your home and visit with no one.

Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.

Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing.

No experience exists unless it's a shared one.

I'm a big tweeter, especially when 'Scandal' is on, and I started tweeting some other shows.

The future of TV is not on TV. It's on the smaller screens we are all using in front of the television set.

The whole industry is changing because so many people watch things on DVR, and they watch things on other platforms, and I think everybody is kind of scratching their heads about how this is going to play out.

I never watched reality shows. I was obviously very aware of them because they're everywhere, but I was not somebody who watched them.

I believe that cinema died on the 31 September 1983 when the zapper, or the remote control, was introduced into the living rooms of the world.

I'm not embarrassed to watch anything on TV.

I don't watch 'Mad Men.'

I don't have cable. I don't have a DVR.

Web is going to become very big... The format is different in terms of its storytelling pattern and its duration. Web audience enjoys watching stuff on the go, they prefer to watch it alone. It is isolated viewing while cinema is collective viewing.

I did not sit down and watch 'Baywatch' growing up. But I do specifically remember it coming on, and I remember it going off. I watched something that came on right before and then going back to that channel to watch what was coming on afterwards.

That's part of what I remember about seeing the movies that influenced me: the experience of watching them with a crowd and how they react to something.

Because you know what happens when you say 'hello' or 'good morning?' You make a connection. And isn't that what being human is all about?

I must admit I don't watch a lot of Adult Swim or Cartoon Network.

I don't even know anyone who hasn't watched 'Sex and the City.' If you didn't, we can't be friends.

I don't really watch much TV. I'm usually into movies.