“If there’s anything unsettling to the stomach, it’s watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Media
Alfred Hitchcock on Media
“Seeing a murder on television… can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.” Continue reading
Bill Cosby on Advertising
“The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.” Continue reading
Hodding Carter on Television
“Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.” Continue reading
Fred Allen on Hollywood
“You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer’s heart.” Continue reading
Clive Barnes on Television
“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.” Continue reading
Edward R. Murrow on TV
“When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.” Continue reading
Kate Reid on Acting
“Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.” Continue reading
Edgar Watson Howe on Lies
“Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.” Continue reading
Edith Sitwell on Truth
“The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.” Continue reading
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