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GLENDA JACKSON |
1936- ; British actress and Member of Parliament |
| No one should have a chance to see so much desire, so much need for a prize, and
so much pain when not given it. |
• on the Academy Awards ceremony; source and date unknown; quoted in The Times, 24 March 2001
See also Albert Finney |
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CLIVE JAMES |
Australian-born writer, critic and television presenter |
| A TV programme can never be worse than its
viewers; for the more stupid it is, the more stupid they are to watch it. |
• source unknown |
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STEVE JOBS |
Founder and chief executive, Apple Computer |
| 1 So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got
this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think
about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our
salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to
Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.' |
• On attempts by Jobs and Steve Wosniak to develop the personal computer |
| 2 You go to your TV set when you want
to turn your brain off. You go to your computer when you want to turn your brain on. |
• October 1998 |
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ERIC JOHNSTON |
Eric Allen Johnston
President, Motion Picture Association of America |
| 1When I talk about freedom of speech in connection with this hearing, I mean just this: You
don't need to pass a law to choke off free speech or seriously curtail it. Intimidation or coercion will
do it just as well. You can't make good and honest motion pictures in an atmosphere of fear. I intend to
use every influence at my command to keep the screen free. I don't propose that Government shall tell the
motion-picture industry, directly or by coercion, what kind of pictures it ought to make. I am as
whole-souledly against that as I would be against dictating to the press or the radio, to the book publishers
or to the magazines. ... We insist on our rights to decide what will or will not go in our pictures. We are
deeply conscious of the responsibility this freedom involves, but we have no intention to violate this trust
by permitting subversive propaganda in our films. |
• Evidence to the House Un-American Activities Committee, October 1947
 Johnston's evidence to HUAC |
| 2 Motion pictures, in my judgment, will be the sturdy backbone of television. I
believe that a great spurt in film production and forward strides in picture-making techniques are inevitable. |
• Hollywood Reporter booklet, November 1948 |
| 3 It’s a little known fact that
nine out of 10 United States films cannot pay their way in the domestic market alone. It
is only because of revenue from abroad that Hollywood is able to turn out pictures of high
artistry and technical excellence. |
• evidence to US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 1953 |
4 Our pictures fill about 60 per cent of the screen time in foreign
countries. When any one of them wants to impose restrictions I can go to the
Finance Minister, not threateningly, but to simply state that our films keep
more than half the theatres open. This means employment and a bolstering factor
for the economy of whichever country is involved. And I can tell the Finance
Minister of the tax revenue which these theatres yield.
But if only two or three American companies were to accept
the restrictions on their own, my argument with the Finance Minister would lose
its weight. My position would be an impossible one if our ranks are to be
broken. We must have the uniformity of policy. |
• Variety, 10 October 1956; cited in Thomas H Guback: The
International Film Industry, 1969 |
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J W C JOHNSTONE |
American market researcher? |
| If it is true, as some observers have
noted, that television has come to be almost exclusively identified by the American public
as a medium of light entertainment, it may be that no matter how much instructional fare
were made available on television, other channels would still be preferred for formal
learning experiences. |
• Volunteers for Learning: A study of the educational
pursuits of American adults, Chicago: National Opinion Research Center, 1963 |
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HANNS JOHST |
1890-1978; German dramatist, Nazi Poet Laureate |
Wenn ich Kultur höre ... entsichere ich meinen Browning.
When I hear the word ‘culture’ I release my pistol’s safety-catch. |
• Schlageter, 1934; wrongly attributed to Hermann Goering
cf Alan Bennett and I J Good |
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AL JOLSON |
1886-1950; American singer and actor |
| Wait a minute, wait a minute! You ain’t heard nothin’ yet, folks! |
• first words spoken in The Jazz Singer, released July 1927 |
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CHUCK JONES |
1912-2002; American animator |
| A small child once said to me: 'You don't draw Bugs Bunny, you draw pictures of Bugs Bunny.'
That's a very profound observation because it means he thinks that the characters are alive,
which, as far as I'm concerned, is true. And, I feel the same way about animation
... Animation isn't an illusion of life. It is life. |
• source unknown; cited on animationusa.com |
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Dr PETER JONES |
Journalist and editor, co-founder of Friends of Classics |
| It was the Ancient Greeks who invented media studies. They taught rhetoric, the
art of peaceful persuasion, in Athenian democracy which is what we now call
empowerment. Those skills Ms Jowell is seeking should be found in any classics course. |
• quoted in The Times, 21 January 2004 |
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TESSA JOWELL |
1947- ; British politician; Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport 2001- |
| 1 The prospect of the UK without a BBC funded by the licence fee is anywhere between
improbable and impossible. |
• quoted in The Times, 8 June 2002 |
2 I believe that in the modern world media literacy will become as
important a skill as maths or science. Decoding our media will be as important
to our lives as citizens as understanding great literature is to our cultural
lives. ...
If people can take greater personal responsibility for what
they watch and listen to, that will itself lessen the need for regulatory
intervention. ...
With so many ways to get information—not just through
television and radio but also internet and mobile phone—it becomes
increasingly hard to know where what we see or hear is coming from, who has made
it and why. Everyone needs to be able to decode the way the media works [sic],
questioning everything in order to understand everything. |
• quoted in The Times, 21 January 2004
cf Peter Jones |
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CARL JUNG |
1875-1961; Swiss psychiatrist |
| The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger
all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a
humanitarian ordering of life. |
• quoted in Roger Manvell: Film, Penguin Books, 1944 |
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