media influence on perception Quotes

I think society has become more and more immune to reality television which is the most frightening thing in the world to me.

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

Much of the image of the amazingness of America comes from the movies into other cultures. And it's much the same thing when you reverse it. Much of Africa is presented through poverty, through drought and war. [But] you're not presenting people, you're not presenting countries, you're not presenting complexity, and so people can't care about an amorphous mass called Africa.

Some parents were nervous about how they would portray everything, ... At a picnic the moms put on for the team and coaches, I said that all the reality shows are turning around and showing good things, not bad things.

Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen, and the newcomer from Cambodia thinks he knows LA because he's seen City of Angels on video.

People need to understand that hip-hop that has gun talk is just for entertainment; similar to if you were watching a movie. Film schools don't have anything against movies with violence.

I guess we have the press to thank for pushing us to see something we didn't see!

I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.