John Mason Brown Quotes

While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.

Switch off reality TV! I've only ever been able watch about 30 seconds of it.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Sometimes, I hate-watch television.

I think TV is all about caring, and if you don't care about a character in a drama or a person when they get voted out of a reality show, it's bad TV. I wouldn't care if you dropped a bomb on the 'Big Brother' house.

Most television could be presented by a dachshund. Radio can't, although there are a lot of dachshunds in there.

I added and deleted according to the audiences' response to different gestures, and chose songs to build an act that would constantly stimulate my audience.

'Big Brother,' I can't believe people watch. It's just people whispering to each other for hours and then some silly challenge like, who can pull the most stones out of a stuffed alligator, with some product tie-in.

My dad's a doctor, and he'd watch 'Grey's Anatomy,' and he'd be like, 'This is not okay. This isn't what it's like.' And we're like, 'Shut up, it's not about that. That's not why we're watching it.'

Everyone uses art for different reasons: We use it as entertainment. We use it as an escape. We use it as comfort. Everyone uses it for different reasons.

You get fed up watching shows with not much care and love, reality programmes where they put people in a house for a fortnight and film them doing everything, or where participants arrive after lunch and do the programme at six.

It's a fallacy, long rebuffed by science, that humans use only about 10% of their brainpower. But it is true about most summer movies. Pouring their wizardry into special effects and well-choreographed fights, warm-weather action films rarely challenge the viewer with grand notions or beautifully baffling imagery.

For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

I really don't like reality television and the nonsense that comes with it.

TV is a wasteland. It's a bunch of news actors that read off a prompter.

In my case, I take part in performance-oriented music and believe it is my call to show the audience something that both their eyes and ears can enjoy.

I like shows for atmosphere. I don't know, I think a plot-driven show is so boring and masc4masc and gross.

I hate to say this about television, since I have a television show, but it's just mind-numbing to me.

I don't watch 'TUF.' I don't watch it because I don't like how they show me.

TV creates good viewership because it generates interest by being entertaining.

When I go to a movie, I want to see stuff that I don't see in my normal life, and I want to see it all.

I definitely watch reality shows where I'm not learning something better in the end.

I think that anybody can go home, put the record on, and listen to it note for note, but there's very little entertainment value in that, I believe. When you give people something visually entertaining to watch along with presenting the music, I feel it makes it a lot more interesting.

I don't know what people like to see.