Bill Duke Quotes

Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

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

I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed.

I grew up watching television. I'm a television addict. I had all these heroes, but they didn't look like me.

We learn so much about the world by what we take in through movies and TV and books - we learn who's worthy of having their story told.

I used to believe that we could change the media. I was as naive as anybody.

I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

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.

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

Don't hate the media, become the media.

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

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

Whoever controls the media—the images—controls the culture.

Let’s get real. It does make a difference what children see on television.

Television is the medium through which society communicates its democratic values.

Many newspapers have become players as well as spectators in the political debate.

Media creates awareness [and] ensures transparency and accountability.

Arab media is market driven like the American media. It does not so much shape public opinion as much as it reflects it.

The Press has not only a great influence over our manners and morals, but contributes largely to our pleasures.

So many of our enormous emotional crises are lived through the media. They're lived through movies; they're lived through what we watch on television - they're not actual events in our life.

It's hard not to look at the road of the media and how the media is a big part of painting a picture for public opinion.