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Media Quotes
"I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book."
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"In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality."
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"Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray."
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"In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film."
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"Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops."
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"Then, after showing the pill and some graphics, those same people appeared again, looking happier.The Reb and I watched in silence. After it ended, he asked, "Do you think those pills work?"Not like that, I said."No," he agreed. "Not like that."
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"Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers."
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"TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape."
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"Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make."
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"It's a fantastic review. Sixty percent of the American reviews are sensational, 20% are mixed, not so good."
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"Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally."
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"News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows."
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"Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children."
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"Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong."
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"The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it."
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"The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were."
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"In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically."
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"I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy."
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"The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines."
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"In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them."
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"If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day."
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"I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films."
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"Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies."
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"A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. Other forms of mass media cost too much to produce a risk reaching only a limited audience. Only one person. But a book. . . . A book is cheap to print and bind. A book is as private and consensual as sex. A book takes time and effort to consume - something that gives a reader every chance to walk away. Actually, so few people make the effort to read that it's difficult to call books a "mass medium." No one really gives a damn about books. No one has bothered to ban a book in decades."
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"By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities."
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"Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media."
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"Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches."
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"I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression."
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"Tell us exactly - certainly our listeners - why does it appear that some folks, certainly in the Democratic Party and in the news media - seem to be afraid of you?"
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"Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages."
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"If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying."
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"The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys."
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"Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received a call from Pittsburgh."
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"The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place."
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