Media Quotes

“I have always felt that the viewers are the smartest people in the room.”

“I think that there's a lot of people who are an inch deep and a mile wide on a lot of these issues.”

“One of the things that's striking about the press is its hunger for novelty.”

“Sometimes you have to deny the story until you can get it out.”

“The media are mute, not because they are evil, but because of their structure.”

“The worst thing you can be in television is boring.”

“This is not a secret press bureau. All our work is done in the open. We aim to supply news.”

“I think people are hungry for analysis that isn't just partisan.”

“I have a problem with the paparazzi. They're an invasion of privacy.”

“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases.”

“I think representation is so important. To see yourself reflected on screen is a validating experience.”

“The media, I think, have become a sort of secular church in our country. And they're behaving that way.”

“The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.”

“The single biggest change in the last 20 years in this country has been the splintering of the media.”

“I've always been a pop culture junkie. I'm obsessed with it.”

“The role of the press is to be a watchdog, not a lapdog.”

“Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.”

“Television is a visual medium.”

“I'm not in the business of telling people what to think. I'm in the business of telling people what to think about.”

“The cinema is the principal channel of American influence.”