Jay Asher Quotes

I think there are worse things for a teen to be enraptured with than 'Twilight.'

I would love to be on 'Glee,' thus furthering the myth that I'm a gay man.

In mainstream media, everything gets turned into a stereotype of ourselves.

In the public, it seems to be painted that when minorities get pregnant, they need to get abortions, especially when it comes to teen pregnancy. It's like, when black girls are pregnant, it's like a statistic, but when white girls get pregnant, they get a TV show.

I can't understand why TV tries to appeal to youth.

American public opinion sees Arabs as terrorists and has the desert-man image about them. I wish the Americans would see Arabs and Muslims the way I see them... but Arabs are losing the public relations battle in the United States.

To be honest, and this is terrible to admit, I hardly read any teen mystery books at all.

American pop culture is perpetually in adolescent mode. The notions of what it takes to be a man, as depicted in pop culture, are very superficial, one-dimensional, and adolescent.

Times are changing, and it's catching on that the roles on TV and film need to reflect its diverse viewers.

Even though I've got this really brawny, masculine reputation, I'm a Shondaland Thursdays kind of guy.

When was the last time an Arab MK who appeared on television wasn't there in the role of the accused who is attacked by a skeptical broadcaster?

When I lived in England my perception of what people thought of me was largely formed by the media.

A lot of times in television, you don't get the opportunity to show real life because we're brainwashed to believe the propaganda that these things aren't marketable, that these things don't sell.

In the press, there's this desire for the black audience to be this monolithic thing that always responds to the same stars. That's a really reductive way of looking at the black audience.

I grew up as an avid reader. I would go to the library and check out 40 books a week. Some of them were smarty books; most of them were 'Sweet Valley High' and young teen romance.

White people loved 'The Cosby Show,' especially liberal white people. They loved it because it was a great, funny, well - written, and beautifully performed television show.

Priests and pastors are probably the most stereotyped characters in film and television, and the reason why, I think, is that most people don't know one. Most writers who work in Hollywood don't know any.

What sitcom's brilliant at is identifying a social movement or type and skewering it.

Is television a lookist industry? Of course it is.

One time, I went to an audition, and I stated my name, and the lady was like, 'Oh, that name sounds really familiar. I've seen you on TMZ.' Her first perception of me was what she had heard.

Let's be real: dads get a bad rap in the media. We're talking Vanilla Ice's 'Ninja Rap' bad. More often than not, they're either pop lockin' Soul Train-style after learning they aren't the father, or they're selfish man-children who have more toys than brain cells.

My only experience with American things is through movies.

Don't ever believe what you see in films.

When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.

What if Americans were all judged by the actions of the Bush administration and people did not know the truth? That America is full of people who are, at present, poorly represented and poorly catered to by the media.