Robert Kane Pappas famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. It really is public brainwashing and misinformation.
-- Robert Kane Pappas

#Lying #Believe #People
Many of us had this idea of doing independent film, of making personal, relevant films, as opposed to Hollywood fluff. I directed a few.
-- Robert Kane Pappas

#Independent #Ideas #Hollywood
The problem for independent filmmakers is that huge companies control all the promotion, all the advertising. Hollywood films' advertising budgets are as large as their shooting budgets.
-- Robert Kane Pappas

#Independent #Hollywood Films #Shooting
A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously.
-- Robert Kane Pappas

#Taken #Luck #Advertising
In-depth reporting is expensive. It is much cheaper to have people sit around or on remotes and talk about politics like it's baseball. But there is also a predetermined intent in terms of what is reported and how it is reported, and the degree to which a story is pushed. Both have bad effects.
-- Robert Kane Pappas

#Baseball #People #Depth
I had been thinking independently about our ability to forget things that happened, specifically, events that clearly were wrong, that crossed the line. It seemed to me during the 2000 election recount that the media's narrative was being orchestrated. Shockingly, after the Supreme Court decision, the media simply said, "Time to move on," end of reporting: "Here's the new story." And everyone forgot.
-- Robert Kane Pappas

#Moving #Thinking #Media
It doesn't matter how good your film is; if people don't know about it, they won't go and see it.
-- Robert Kane Pappas

#People #Matter #Film
The media companies control whether a candidate gets "coverage" - which itself is tied to the knowledge of how much he or she has raised. The networks then know how much money the candidate is likely to spend on commercial airtime buys - so, this is a reinforcing system of legal corruption and quid pro quo news coverage.
-- Robert Kane Pappas

#Media #News #Corruption
The problem of media/politics is multifold. Many things are out of whack.
-- Robert Kane Pappas

#Media #Problem

Could man be drunk for ever Â Â Â With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning Â Â Â And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober Â Â Â And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Â Â Â Their hands upon their hearts.
Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

Robert Kane Pappas famous quotes

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