Cameron Diaz Quotes

What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.

I think relationships are broken up because of the media.

I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.

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.

Reality TV rots people's brains.

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away.

I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had television in my home.

You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house.

The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there.

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

Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad.

I am so not hooked into watching TV or listening to the radio, to be honest. Usually, when I do, I get angry.

Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.

We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.

People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleasant things.

Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.

I don't really find a problem with technology or television or anything. I'm a product of it. I grew up watching TV, and I don't think I'm too dumb or too crazy.

For years, the defenders of television have argued that the networks are only giving the people what they want. That might be true. But so is the Medellin cartel.

'Screen time' is meaningless - what matters is what you do while on the screen. The good, the bad, and the ugly faces of screen time will all have to do with which activities you engage into.

You cannot have the media so close to you that it becomes your voice. This is no good because it becomes too extreme, and people will resent it.