Building Quote by Frank Bruni

It's all based on saying the shocking thing. We used to have a great time going to Hollywood parties and saying 'I think George…

— Trey Parker

Americans have never quite digested television. The mystique which should fade grows stronger. We make celebrities not only of the men who cause events…

— Joe McGinniss

I actually felt diminished by watching [Donald Trump's]. If this is what discourse has become in America, who even wants to know about it?…

— Errol Morris

And in this relentlessly unfolding series of interactions, the U.S. has played a very distinctive role, which most Americans have been either shielded from…

— Edward Said

You know, I have never seen the level of anger and frustration and resentment and even disgust among millions of Americans toward the media.…

— Howard Kurtz

We don't have media literacy in America in any kind of substantive way. If we did, I think that (A) more of us would've…

— Jennifer Pozner

It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.

— Yahoo Serious

In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything…

— Rowan Atkinson

Liberals in Hollywood can't stand when Americans resonate to conservatives on television.

— Ben Shapiro

Anytime a movie or television show retreats into certain American pasts, I'm both annoyed and relieved.

— Wesley Morris

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

— Billy Graham

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and…

— Eliot Spitzer