Brian De Palma Quotes

When I lived in England my perception of what people thought of me was largely formed by the media.

If you look at the role models that are out there, the women that tend to be photographed tend to be actresses and models, whereas the men are often in the media because of what they do in terms of business and sport.

Contrary to what certain sections of the media have been reporting, there are no differences between Swami Agnivesh, Kiran Bedi and me.

I'm willing to give Pat Robertson a pass when he says things he shouldn't. That's because for every wacky, regrettable thing he says, he does a hundred thousand non-wacky good things that you'll never hear about on television.

I think a lot of things get blown out of proportion in the media.

Sonnen always appeared as the nice guy, consoling his fighters, while my scenes were all of me with ugly face. It was biased.

I think the BBC likes to have Mary Berry and me around to rebut the charge of ageism.

One time, I went to an audition, and I stated my name, and the lady was like, 'Oh, that name sounds really familiar. I've seen you on TMZ.' Her first perception of me was what she had heard.

I don't think you can have any actual idea of what the Royal Family are really like from how they are portrayed in the papers.

Here's one thing the media and all of us should learn: Trump is not wrong nearly as much as everybody says he's wrong.

Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.

The media paint ugly pictures about you.

The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual activity of science but also, and more unfortunately, convey a false impression about what drives research.

I do not believe so many Turks suspect my activities. The idea that this movement of volunteers is suspected by many Turks arises in the same way and for the same reasons that the world hears more about those Muslims whom the media call radicals. Since those who give this impression are extremely loud, some observers can be deceived.

What if Americans were all judged by the actions of the Bush administration and people did not know the truth? That America is full of people who are, at present, poorly represented and poorly catered to by the media.

The so-called positive press has in some ways been more difficult to swallow than the negative.

I think a lot of the media love the game and hate the people who play it.

The metal press has a certain type of audience, and I think most of them support the magazines' negative focus on me.

People in magazines are 50% bimbo and 50% pregnant women.

If I tape an 11-hour day, guess which parts end up on air. Not the bits when I'm pleasant, but the parts when I'm obnoxious.

The [media] coverage is always, "Will [Democrats] get it? Will they get what they want?" And, really, it's even worse than that. It's not, "Will they get it?" It's "How soon will they get it, and what are the villains gonna do to try to stop them from getting it?"

The constant refrain that bringing our troops home would demonstrate a lack of support for them must be one of the most amazing distortions ever foisted on the American public.

When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters.

If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.

You have never had fair press in America.