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Media Quotes
"You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there."
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"My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes."
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"The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is."
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"Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children."
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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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"The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing."
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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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"In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them."
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"If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action."
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"These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them."
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"I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages."
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"Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers."
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"Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship."
27
"Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches."
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"The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it."
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"Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed."
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"When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show."
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"I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing."
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"The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress."
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"But, we didn't have all the media that we do today."
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"The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn."
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"It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be."
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"Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because printing was not yet invented. Precisely the contrary. The daily press and the telegraph, which in a moment spreads inventions over the whole earth, fabricate more myths (and the bourgeois cattle believe and enlarge upon them) in one day than could have formerly been done in a century."
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"What is odd is not that so many of the iconic news photos of the past, including some of the best-remembered pictures from the Second World War, appear to have been staged. It is that we are surprised to learn they were staged and always disappointed."
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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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"News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows."
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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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"So it's a much more difficult issue to organize around, because you can't get media at all to make your case. And that's where cases tend to be made politically."
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"Your best protection is to have an established agent make the contact."
26
"I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process."
26
"It's a fantastic review. Sixty percent of the American reviews are sensational, 20% are mixed, not so good."
26
"Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then."
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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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"Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now."
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"It's exciting to see a kid at a rehearsal meeting with someone who seems like such an icon."
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