When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you’ve sat through several dozen films where a white man shouts, “You Chinese dog,” before getting his ass kicked, it...

Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.

I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticommunication, featuring a type of discourse that abandons logic, reason, sequence and...

A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.

We’re all watching each other, so there’s no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush.

I don’t watch television. I know better than that.

News is not just about information from media, it’s the current revelation of the two changing worlds of the good and the dark worlds.

I’ve directed a fair amount of television series – so I’m always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I’m trying to get better at when you should do things and...

Fake it. We know you can do that. We’ve seen your sex tape.

There are different ways people make this place. Sweat, exercise and pain is one way. You can see them in the gyms, in the well-ordered swimming pools. You can see them jogging in the small,...

Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.

There was one moment of intersection, when the topic of hate-watching came up. “Why do you watch TV shows–and keep watching them–if you don’t like them?” Terrence asked.Simple: Some days, all you have is gazing...

Television. Maybe it was all a study in the art of mummification. The effect of the medium is so evanescent that those who work in its time apparatus feel the need to preserve themselves, delivering...

That camera, that PC and that television have all got to talk as if they were designed and delivered from the same company with ease of use in mind.

That’s the kind of quality that needs to be on television.

Grimm: Cat and Mouse (#1.18)” (2012)Edgar Waltz: You may think I’m a monster, but what I am is necessary. No society would survive without order. Free thought is not free. There’s no such thing as...

[W]hen a message is squeezed through a twenty-second news spot, so much can be lost that what is left will fail to move anyone enough to make them turn off the set and actually do...

We are not printing a newspaper. We are doing a television advertisement.

When the television-viewing public sits down to watch the new prime-time shows scheduled for this fall ‘ s lineup,

Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through...

Doc didn’t have a television but he could predict that sort of thing. He just didn’t need one. He could always tell what was on TV when he heard more than two people in a...

On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.

Television’s perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are...

In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it’s on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what...

The sky was thick with TV. If you wore special glasses you could see them spinning through the sky among the bats and homing birds—blondes, wars, famines, football, food shows, coups d’état, hairstyles stiff with...

I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.

—La televisión, amigo Daniel, es el Anticristo y le digo yo que bastarán tres o cuatro generaciones para que la gente ya no sepa ni tirarse pedos por su cuenta y el ser humano vuelva...

What we are confronted with now is the problem posed by the economic and symbolic structure of television. Those who run television do not limit our access to information but in fact widen it. Our...

In this image-driven age, wildlife filmmakers carry a heavy responsibility. They can influence how we think and behave when we’re in nature. They can even influence how we raise our kids, how we vote and...

On a clear day I can see NYC. I just have to turn on the TV.

They’re trying to eat up every good idea that comes along. It’s ruining the television network marketplace for everyone.

A window—it’s more entertaining than TV. Just ask a cat looking out, or a man looking in on a life he desires.

A picture is worth 1,000 megapixels. High-definition (HD) TV images are used to camouflage some writers’ low-definition (LD) vocabulary.

When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a...

I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I realized I was interested in plays. I never imagined myself on television. I...

I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.

There have been an increasing number of outlets as more and more cable networks are demanding television production and original programming.

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

Keisha Blake, whose celebrated will and focus did not leave her much room for angst, watched her friend ascend to the top deck in her new panda-eyed makeup and had a mauvais quart d’heure, wondering...

The theater has been called the pulse of the people.

Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright – getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.

There’s a way in which filmmaking is a director’s medium and television is a writer’s medium, so even as TV gets more cinematic, it’s still guided by the writer.

Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.

We’re used to seeing a radio station turn around in one rating period. You change the talent, the ratings go up, your revenues follow and you’ve made a fortune out of it. Television, unfortunately, is...

Statisticians report that television is watched over six hours a day in the average American household. I don’t know any fiction writers who live in average American households. I suspect Louise Erdrich might. Actually I...

Actualmente el pueblo soberano «opina» sobre todo en función de cómo la televisión le induce a opinar. Y en el hecho de conducir la opinión, el poder de la imagen se coloca en el centro...

It’s nice to watch television but it’s even nicer when you’ve got a drink in your hand,’ Gregory Ratcliffe, a Birmingham shopkeeper, told Reynolds News. ‘Makes it more intimate somehow. Gives you the feeling that...

I don’t watch much British television at all. I mean, it’s ironic because I used to work in it for years.