When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.
Nothing is really real unless it “happens” on television…Television has brought an inversion of our consciousness. When we take our eyes off the tube, we see things that are not quite authentic – or rather, which gain authenticity only by their resemblance to how things happen on television
There's a difference between reality TV and reality. There's a big difference.
I wholeheartedly agree that many media 'standards' can feel disingenuous or, in fact, be a cover for less-than-honest behavior.
Anderson Cooper's on-air reaction to Bob Simon's death; Wolf Blitzer personalizing his experience in going back to Auschwitz where his grandparents lost their lives - I think that has all made our air more authentic.
I think if you look at the statistics and you deal with fake media - and fake media and distorted media is a continuum - the vast majority of the population says, "I don't know what to believe." There are no checks and balances in quality control.
Sometimes, we want Asians in the media, but we don't want them to talk about being Asian. For me, that's interesting because I'm from Asia. If you want me to be on television but I can't be Asian, I'm not being true to myself.
My style is in the 21st century. If you look at the process, it goes from photography through Photoshop, where certain features are heightened, elements of the photo are diminished. There is no sense of truth when you're looking at the painting or the photo or that moment when the photo was first taken.
I grew up in L.A., and I don't think I've seen L.A. onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between.
For me, I feel like reality TV is anything but these days.
People know elections, like television commercials, are not real.
I don't like docudramas. Documentaries should not go together with fiction, or half-fiction or quarter-fiction. The two should not go together. They cannot mix.
Whenever I watch a show and twentysomethings have a lot of 'Star Wars' references, I know it's written by a 40-year-old dude.
I want authenticity. And rarely do actors - more specifically, black actors - get a chance to be authentic on film and television.
Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.
How many reality shows can you watch? They're so obviously phony.
It can be difficult navigating the line between tabloid gossip and authenticity.
Not to say there's not good TV out there, but I think TV is better when it accurately reflects the world as it is.
You see reality TV and it's not reality TV. It's contrived and everything is plotted and scripted nearly. Documentaries are the same and just as bad.
Just because we finally have a Latino family on TV doesn't mean we're up there to lecture people about what it means to be Latino.
I think we need to have stories about women that don't necessarily fit the trope of the classic woman, because they do exist. We have to show real life on TV and film. And we don't. We only see maybe 5 percent of what real people are really like. I mean, movies set in Los Angeles that don't have any minorities in them - how does that happen?
Our viewers are very educated, they can tell if I train or not.
I don't think you realize how often on television people are not like anyone we know or have known.
Unfortunately, a lot of the mainstream media television is so fake, so plastic, that it's really turned off the younger generation.
Sometimes, when I watch a movie where teenagers are played by actors that are 26 years old and look perfect, it makes you wonder what story is actually being told.
