Keith Urban Quotes

I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.

Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.

I'd have to say that reality TV ruined our family, and it's a disgrace.

I always say 'The Bachelor' doesn't create and drive social issues. We're a microcosm of what's happening in the world.

Reality TV has managed to commodify everything we used to think of as the elements of normal life.

People have become so literal because they're used to reality-based television.

The O. J. Simpson trial was the launching-off point for a lot of our pop culture and news culture habits and touchstones.

Reality shows help us create a balance between our real and reel side.

Whenever you bring reality TV into the mix, it's only a matter of time before, whatever fiction you come up with, it'll become real.

It's about story; it is a social experiment, and people take that into account when they're watching 'Big Brother.'

We always see a trend on TV, and others follow suit. I think 'Rangrasiya' will be a trend setter, too.

Films are the largest and most impactful medium.

What is the consequent effect on a society of beings looking for themselves in the myths on the screen? It's safe to say that they have failed us, but I can't help it... I love Movies.

Mark Zuckerberg has never really had pressure put on him. He's an engineer, and he's created this perfect system that is Facebook, and he's always been concerned about the internal beauty and logic of this creation that he's created. I don't think that the human implications of what he's created have often been apparent to him.

'We Are... ' is all obviously about social media and kind of the insecurities around social media and how people have become addicted to their phones and altered children's minds to what they need to look like, what they need to dress like.

Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.

In India, thousands of people want to be in the movies because Bollywood plays such a huge role in our lives.

Much of reality TV has been like the worst nightmares of Theodor Adorno and Jean Baudrillard come true, its seductive allure turning us into gossips in the global village.

When I was about 10 years old, the 'Ricki Lake show' aired in Israel, and it was the first time I was exposed to American reality culture.

'1600 Penn' was a hit. It's 2018. Anything you want can be true.

The Bachelor' has always been a great show that embraces what's happening in the world and embraces pop culture.

'Catfish' is a great project that we have a blast doing, and it's really fun and at the zeitgeist in the world - certainly in the U.S., hopefully in the U.K. and I imagine the rest of the world. Being at the centre of this discussion and this subject has been really incredible as both a filmmaker and someone who likes to participate in pop culture.

I think 'Celebrity Big Brother' is one of the most important shows on TV because we get to see people for who they really, really are and you've only got to look at.

Reality TV is a lot about drama, but for the first time in a long time, you actually have role models on TV.

The fact is that during the post-1989 heyday of globalization optimism, political and business elites did not think enough about the prospect - plainly predicted in economic theory - that trade would harm some people even while leaving society as a whole better off. The result was overpromised benefits and inadequate adjustment plans.