For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.
Studies have shown people listen to TV than watch it.
Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
I definitely watch reality shows where I'm not learning something better in the end.
People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long.
I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it.
Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.
I was watching 'Wild at Heart,' and I can honestly say I did nothing for that apart from show up!
Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it?
Viewers can't work or play while watching television; they can't read; they can't be out on the streets, falling in love with the wrong people, learning how to quarrel and compromise with other human beings. In short, they are asocial.
When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I look.
I never in my life watch 'Rick and Morty' unless I came home from school and it was on TV.
Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
The spectator is a dying animal.
As a reader and as a viewer, usually when I watch a movie, I'm caught up enough in the movie that I'm not breaking it down to the details anyway.
You can binge a TV series or watch a reality show, and they're not innocent. They take a lot of room in your brain, and you don't have any space left for your own thoughts. They give you a scripted reality. It's an ideological tool.
You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.
With Netflix, I browse; I watch documentaries about things I'd never dream of, but I think, 'I might as well.'
I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.
Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.
I'm not one of those people that goes into the movies that are based off of books going, 'I know what this is really about.' I want to go and have a good time.
The more elaborate your narrative, the more the spectator shuts up and listens obediently. And if the filmmaker keeps quiet, the spectator will himself project his own assumptions and sentiments onto the screen.
I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it.
These people that watch our MTV shows, they're not music fans. They're people that are lazy on their couch and want to watch funny videos or whatever.
You have to surrender less when you see a film than when you go and see something live.
