Marina Abramovic Quotes

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

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

'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

Artists like Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga have more sway over popular minds than a politician.

Television is the first truly democratic culture—the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Television really has been responsible for everything that I've done successfully.

TV is the most powerful medium, which has taken me right into the homes of so many people.

Sooner or later, everything turns into television.

People have always said since TV was invented what a cultural wasteland it is but I think it is the worst and the best. It is the golden age of television.

Television has been very good to me. I grew up on it, and it had quite an impact on me. I'm entertaining opportunities that are coming my way.

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses.

Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment.

You were doing a TV show - you don't realise that you're also making social commentary at the same time.

TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.

Television is a young person's medium.

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.

It's a blessing to be a part of television shows that were, to a certain extent, staples in a lot of people's lives and as far as their entertainment lives.

The newspapers and magazines, the theaters and the social reform movements, are more and more made for a public which looks only to be entertained and which has lost the power of sustained attention.