Media Appreciation Quotes

I wouldn't say I'm a connoisseur of film. I like certain films, but I don't pretend to be a connoisseur of films, no.

I'm no prophet and I'm no genius, but I can only tell you what I seem to know. As a fan of television and the movies, I think it's all for the better.

I enjoy the press. I understand their business.

The best compliment we ever got on 'Clone Wars' was a parent coming up and telling me that it was something they could watch with their kids. I really love that.

It's an honor to be named Rookie of the Year by the media.

TV has been very good to me, and I hope I've been good to it, but I also love film.

People who watch 'Fox News,' you may say, and this is anecdotal, but they are passionate about it. In the most unlikely places, like down in Soho where I used to live, people would come up to me and thank me for it. People I didn't know from a bar of soap. People appreciate that at least they're being heard. It is much more watchable.

I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television.

I love 'Girls' on HBO because it's brave and cool.

People who listen to NPR are forever thanking the hosts for 'sharing,' or 'initiating a dialogue,' or 'taking the time to explain this very important issue.'

I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.

I never understood why anyone cared about the Kardashians until a friend, who's Latina, told me that she liked them because they're a family who look like hers. I was able to appreciate them differently.

I love the female characters in 'She-Ra.' There isn't another show quite like it.

It takes a minute to get use to the TV thing, and I have so much more respect for TV actors now.

I love the BBC and I think it's a really important thing.

I'm not mad at digital media at all; I just see the importance and beauty of physical media.

CBS has received a strong and positive response from the YouTube community about the quality of its programming.

I don't expect the press to say thank you for the efforts that I make.

Television became defensible - and, frankly, worshipped - because the shows started to be so carefully structured, so attentive to language, and so visually interesting that they suddenly caught people's eye.

I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk.

The BBC is very prestigious from an American's perspective, so I'm a big fan of it.

I have nothing negative to say about 'X Factor,' it's the best show in the world.

As much as I very much want audiences to watch FX's carefully curated and highly contextualized television shows, I'm now glad when anyone takes the time to watch even our competition's television series, as long as it demands their sustained attention and challenges their knee-jerk perceptions.

Children don't mind when something was made - they don't discriminate in that way. I tape very early episodes of 'Rainbow' and 'Trumpton' for my son and watch them with him. He loves them. 'Trumpton' was made in 1967, but he still watches it like it's brand new.

In my whole life, when I've watched TV and movies, I've almost always felt, 'I could do that better,' and I thought everyone felt that way.