Media Depiction Quotes

I've portrayed cops as heroes for far too long, I think.

If you think about it, there's very little about young families on TV, and yet there's so many of them.

So many women characters are extensions of male fantasy.

It's all so surreal seeing yourself in a video game.

Notwithstanding the likes of 'All the President's Men' in the 1970s or HBO's recent 'The Newsroom,' film and TV have always loved to hate the press.

The female nudity in movies is always sexualized.

It feels good to watch TV and know that you're being represented on somebody's network and for certain communities, it feels even better to know that you're being depicted truthfully.

My strong sense now is that, as women have become more equal in society, so their depictions onscreen have become lamer and lamer and lamer, to the point that it's an embarrassment.

You rarely see women being nice to each other on television anymore.

I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property, like journalists do, you have a responsibility not to tear it down, but to raise it up. The depiction of rap and of hip-hop culture in the media is one that needs more of a responsible approach from journalists. We need more 30-year-old journalists. We need more journalists who have children, who have families and wives or husbands, those kinds of journalists. And then you'll get a different depiction of hip-hop and rap music.

I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.

I'm always hyperaware of the way in which working people are portrayed on the stage.

I have always been appalled by the depiction of female CIA operatives.

So many times, shows say they're set somewhere - like in Chicago, 'The Good Wife' - but it doesn't feel like Chicago.

For some reason, being gay can be such a sad thing in media, so it's really cool to see someone like me who doesn't look like, I guess, the stereotypical gay guy.

I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate.