The Media Quotes

I'm a big believer that media is an impulse business.

Never build your content ship on rented land.

A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

To me, the media in New York and LA have always missed the essence of this country.

We have flooded ourselves with the media in all its many forms. Our minds are now open to signals. We have become aerials.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

You don't want your relationship to be in the press, but at the same time, and this is only a theory, the more you try and keep it secret, the more the media tries to crack it open.

The more we think we're not affected by media - stereotypes, advertising - the more potential those forms of media have.

All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state as the years passed.

Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job.

My children were attacked by the Minnesota media when I was governor.

I'm saying that there's way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us.

The media doesn't educate anyone.

I'm reading a lot of scripts. It makes my career decisions in that sense much the same way I consume media.

I feel like a lot of the industry and media portray this image of what beautiful is, or how you should dress, or how you should look, and I don't think it's healthy.

We saw recently that Donald Trump has gotten now over $4 billion in free media exposure, Hillary Clinton over $2 billion, and of course I've had almost none.

We need to use antitrust laws. You know, we need to create real media again.

Remember Donald Trump had about $4 billion worth of free media, and Hillary Clinton has had about $2 billion, and we've had zero. I think it remarkable that we are standing where we are.

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

I wish we had a more open discourse. It's just a shame that with our 24-hour news media and the Internet, people have become so fragmented. They only want to support their own worldview.

Technology and the pace of change in media is pushing us into an uncomfortable area The media have perhaps become more cavalier towards pushing confidential information.

We take our last look at the killing noise.

Being rich and famous seems to have its ups and downs. That's the price you pay for being troubadours and clowns.

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

About 97% of the media is created by men.

I don't rely on the media. I usually average one speech a day for 25 years. People know me because I'm out there.

Let's not hesitate. This is where the press corps, the media should all stand together. And I hope that you have the same response that you had when it came time to defend Fox.

There's a lot of funding of the media and film in particular, literary publishing gets recognized as culture. I think fashion should too.

The media plays up celebrity a lot, but it doesn't hold a candle to being a scientist. There's a lot to be said for what they all do, and are trying to accomplish.

I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media.

The media's job is to question a premise.

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

Making media companies that you hope to sell is not a lot of fun for anyone who cares deeply about making media.

I've been circling the wagons down at Times Square, trying to fill up this hole in my soul but nothing fits in there.

A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate.

I am not an Internet superstar. I am, ironically perhaps, the most old media superstar of all time. My fame is due to broadcast television.

I don't want to comment on media outlets, but I will tell you that if the Republican Party does not evolve, the Republican Party is going to die.

The diversity revolution [in the news media] was supposed to increase readership and enhance credibility. Just the opposite has resulted. How long will it take the business to figure this out?

People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media.

The media can make anything true or untrue. So if you do 80 films and you play a bad guy ten times, then you're a bad guy, and then the media repeats that.

I quit the media game. I'm out. I'm done.

It's always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone.

In California, it's hard to buy all the media, no matter how much money you raise or spend, because it's such a huge state.

Go to work and be a Hollywood stud, drive your four wheel drive right into the mud.

How to become a media star: Be a Republican who bucks the party line. How to be ignored by media: Be a Democrat who bucks party line.

In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth.

The Mirror has become an important antidote to a media that is, most of it, supportive of the establishment, some of it quite rabidly rightwing. The Mirror is breaking ranks, and that's good news.