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"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."

"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."

"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."

"Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation."

"To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness."

"I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information."
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"I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty."

"I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world."

"I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis."

"I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring."

"They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open your film in Arkansas.'"
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