Darnell M. Hunt famous quotes

People learn a lot about what they think they know about other people from what they see in the media. If they see certain types of images reproduced over and over again for other groups that limit them to narrow types of roles and portrayals, they start to take those prejudices into their interactions with those people in real society, and that creates all kinds of discriminatory problems.
-- Darnell M. Hunt

#Real #Thinking #Media

Race is a core reality of American experience. Media images on television need to reflect that reality to help people who consume media and who don't have the day-to-day, face-to-face contact with others, or where that contact is minimal, to help them have a greater appreciation of other experiences and how they're all part of the American fabric.
-- Darnell M. Hunt

#Appreciation #Reality #Race

It's just unfair that talent of color aren't given the same opportunities as white and male actors, directors, producers, writers, et cetera.
-- Darnell M. Hunt

#Opportunity #Color #White

It's hard to win awards if there are no roles.
-- Darnell M. Hunt

#Winning #Awards #Roles

I don't believe that there's a silver bullet, that if you just do this one thing, you solve the problems of the world.
-- Darnell M. Hunt

#Believe #World #Bullets

A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.

Think it over, think it under.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?.

As her parents, Aishwarya and I want our child to be happy and healthy. I was guarded from all this (media attention and showbiz world). The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

If the media isnt slanted toward the Left, why is everyone so worried about my affiliation with Glenn Beck but not with Alec Baldwin?

It is a mistake to make propaganda many-sided, like scientific instruction, for instance... As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided, the effect will piddle away, for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered.

[Propaganda] does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way...