Jason Calacanis Quotes

I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.

If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them and is supposed to be funny, what you'll notice is that they don't laugh.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

Television is intensely personal.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain.

They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television.

Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen.

I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it.

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment.

TV and film has defined my entire life.

I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

I got into television because I hated it so. I thought, there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

I didn't grow up watching a lot of TV.

Television's not going read stories to you.

I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.

Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically influence their behavior.

Television changes you. Therefore it is important what you watch and when you watch.

Television is not a gimmick, and if you think it is, you’ll lose again.

Our culture loves movies and TV, which is wonderful, but there's something a little bit passive sometimes about watching, because you're looking at other people's imagination at work.

I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.