Theatre Quote by Neil Postman

“TV. It’s like if you’re not on it, you don’t exist. The single most pernicious idea in our culture.”

— John Sandford

“We have treated television as if it is not a mass medium, and we have been rewarded in kind.”

— David Simon

“The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining, which is another…

— Neil Postman

“Somehow, television made behavior that you would go out of your way to avoid in real life into something fascinating.”

— Jean Thompson

“Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare not well done. ”

— Ernie Kovacs

“But what I am claiming here is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the…

— Neil Postman

“We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television”

— Neil Postman

“television’s way of knowing is uncompromisingly hostile to typography’s way of knowing; that television’s conversations promote incoherence and triviality; that the phrase “serious television”…

— Neil Postman

“Theater cannot include only people. What acts on stage is matter.”

— Gaetano Pesche

“The stage was thought to have a shaping influence, for the most part a bad one, on youthful character and conduct in much the…

— Edith Wharton

Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and…

— Christopher Eccleston

I also have always felt that television has a huge potential for the kinds of audiences that some films would never dream or ever…

— Glenn Close