America Quote by David Riesman

Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.

— Marina Abramovic

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.

— Bill James

Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape.

— Todd Phillips

Movies are America's primary cultural product, colonizing minds around the world for almost a century.

— Miranda Devine

If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.

— Jacques Audiard

Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape. There is…

— Todd Phillips

Many people have this memory of traditional TV documentary-making that aims to portray pure reality, and I just don't see that as the only…

— Alex Gibney

The publicity machine for films and television is so much bigger than for theatre.

— Mark Rylance

Films are meant for the masses, for the purpose of entertainment.

— Paresh Rawal

Much to my chagrin, I think that cinema has gone the wrong way in America because in many ways, I pioneered the use of…

— Rob Nilsson