Michael Mann Quotes

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

I think the problem with visual media like TV is that they're reductive.

TV and film has defined my entire life.

Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

Television and I grew up together.

That's the power of television. You come into people's homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of intimacy.

You often forget, because you're so inside it, that television has power.

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

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

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.

How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

Politicians need a film appreciation course.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

Television is intensely personal.

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 apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.

I have a 6-year-old daughter, and we never look through magazines. But when we're on a plane, that's the one time we have screen-time and magazine-time sometimes. And I do not open a magazine with her without saying: 'Now remind me, are these real pictures?'

As much as I very much want audiences to watch FX's carefully curated and highly contextualized television shows, I'm now glad when anyone takes the time to watch even our competition's television series, as long as it demands their sustained attention and challenges their knee-jerk perceptions.