Raoul Peck Quotes

People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long.

Reality TV rots people's brains.

I watch every reality show out there.

As The O.C. started up again, I started to feel myself potentially getting pulled away.

I'm pretty captivated by reality TV and I know that as an actor I probably shouldn't be saying that, but it's what I like to watch.

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values

The space between the television set and the viewer is holy ground.

The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.

I can't say I've watched 'Twin Peaks.' I feel like I wouldn't be comfortable doing so until after I'm done with 'Riverdale.'

Wrestling is the first reality show. With a reality show, you never what is real and what is not.

Reality in America is heavily scripted, very edited, and they have a say in what goes on TV and what doesn't.

Television brings with it two dangerous hazards: the worship of celebrity and the blurring of reality and fantasy.

Reality TV - I'm not trying to dog it, everybody has their own thing, you know - but I didn't see it for me.

Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any.

I really just drew off of where we are now, with reality TV. You can't help but see a lot of it. You choose to watch some, but with some, you just can't help but hear it and see it. It's just piercing in your brain. That piercing is what I was tapping into , with whatever they were doing to pierce into the minds of everybody. It takes a certain kind of person to shut your mind off to the consequences and just try to get results. That's what I was going for - results.

We have the media, which is such a waste in the sense that you can actually feel your IQ get lower as you watch TV.

People watch three or four episodes at a time of their shows.

The only shared reality we have is things we have seen on television.

Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union.

People will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that.

I have closely noted that people who watch a great deal of TV never again seem able to adjust to the actual pace of life. The speed of the passing images becomes the speed the aspire to and they seem to develop an impatience and boredom with anything else.

Prior to [streaming], the idea of sitting down and watching a show every week seemed like a great idea.

A new study has found that watching Fox News can make you more conservative and watching MSNBC can make you more liberal. And watching CNN can make you think that no plane has ever safely reached its destination.