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“Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page.”

Emotion Television Pages Reflection Invites Printed

Author:Bill Moyers

“Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.”

“Sentimentalising is anathema, as far as I am concerned. It leads you into ethical problems about violence and killing and eating meat. The whole world becomes topsy-survy if you impose moralities that were evolved within human society on what a blowfly or what a parasite does... there are lots of emotions you can deduce from an animal's behaviour that are correct, but when you start saying it's feeling guilty or thinking or a loved one or mourning, you must be very careful of those feelings.”

“What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's not truly shared. A human being must learn at a very young age how to connect to other human beings. Our technologies are driving us apart, only connecting us in terms of information, not in terms of emotions.”

Source: Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser

“Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.”

Character Easy Emotion Cutting Television Killing Short Cuts Cathartic

Author:Nic Pizzolatto

“Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.”

Emotion Television Intellect Strikes Thrive

Author:Robin Day

“You need players that stand for emotion in football. Football today is a game for television.”

Needs Today Games Emotion Player Television Football

Author:Berti Vogts

“I love what movies and television and all that kind of stuff has done to me through the years. I love that it can bring up all these different emotions in me - whether it's anger or happiness or sadness...whatever it may be.”

Years Kind May Different Done Stuff Emotion Sadness Television Through The Years Different Emotions

Author:Kevin Sorbo

“There is something so great about film and television where you can convey an emotion in the blink of an eye which you would perhaps not be able to do to the back row of a theatre, like over 1000 seats, and there is something so subtle and beautiful about that too.”

Eye Able Beautiful Film Emotion Television Theatre Seats Subtle Blink Film And Television Blink Of An Eye

Author:Anna Camp