Media Reflection Quotes

There's nothing more ridiculous than seeing yourself in a video game.

I'm just a journalist. I shine a mirror to the culture. I give the cop-out answer.

As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

When 'Ally McBeal' started, I went, 'Oh, my God.' It's like what I was doing. 'Bridget Jones' was in the same vein. I identify with all of them.

The press tends to reflect what's important to the country.

The more messy women that we put on screen, that we put in books, the more women can feel represented and seen, then they can access their own stuff, feel it's okay, and then have the strength to speak out about things like we're talking about. About rising up.

If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.

I don't think in today's world you can go too far. However you may feel about social media or the Internet or selfies, it's part of how we all live today. 'Vogue' needs to understand and reflect that.

What we watch on television, we approve.

We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.

Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.

Arab media is market driven like the American media. It does not so much shape public opinion as much as it reflects it.

We are the movies and the movies are us.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

When women get great roles in life, they start to get great roles in films and TV. Look at Janet Reno, Madeleine Albright, and Mrs. Thatcher. Because those images are coming at us in life, they are reflected in acting.

But if I had my way, there would be so much more, in everything. It's so vital and integral in life, and it should be reflected in what we're watching, if we're reflecting our experiences. And it's hot. I love the sex stuff, and I want more.

Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.

I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.

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.

I feel so grateful when I see a movie and there's a woman who looks somewhat like me. I'm like, 'Thank you, Samantha Morton!' You know, a woman who feels like a human being. That means so much to me.

I want 'Flash' to reflect the world we live in.

I want to watch telly that reflects the world I see.

In terms of representation, television is reflecting an era that has passed. It's the wrong time; it's the wrong period. In all sorts of television, it doesn't feel like the 21st century.

When I was a teenager, in the '80s, it was 'Dynasty.' It was 'Beverly Hills, 90210.' And those were fantasies. Those weren't reflective of my experience. And I think we all want that; we all want to see ourselves, our story told, something to relate to, to help us and know that we're not freaks, that our experiences aren't odd.

If you think of human experience as a pie, then the wedge Hollywood is reflecting now is getting smaller and smaller.