I'm obsessed with media and news. I could watch it all day.
You are at the mercies of the dailies. With an indie you don't have that.
People say I owe a lot to television. The fact is I was a star long before television. What TV made me is unemployed.
I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.
The White House and the media need one another in order to be successful in their jobs. The White House depends on the media to make its case to the public; the media need the White House to fill their airtime and news columns.
I feel like, as an industry, we've gotten too dependent on source material originated in other mediums.
The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.
I never have my CNN off, it's on the whole day. I don't want to be out of range of television. I'm constantly bombarded by information - Somalia one second, Haiti the next - I need that constant pounding. I couldn't write without television. I need to have the world in my room.
I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.
We want someone to bring us the news.
I've been addicted to TV since I emerged from the womb.
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
Once you get off the network news train, it's hard to get back on.
There are certain people who prize celebrity over substance. That makes the media world go round. The media needs those people to exist.
I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.
International broadcasters are often dependent on an American home broadcasting network, so it changes the game entirely.
TV is nothing without its women.
We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics.
Without the New York Times, there is no blog community. They'd have nothing to blog about.
Recently, our cable went out. Without the TV, children are forced to draw and read; grown-ups are forced to talk to their wives. I call it a psychic pacifier: It washes over you. It helps you avoid reality.
Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.
I watch practically no TV - ah, what the hell do I watch? Oh, I was for a long time addicted to CNN.
Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.
I recognized... very, very early on that ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News were dependent on The Associated Press and Reuters. So my daily intake of information is from watching the newswires.
We are not a creature of the media, so we are not depending on the media publicizing us to make us successful.
