Quotes by Michael Medved

“[Medved did not attend. He lives with his wife and three children in Seattle, where he hosts a conservative talk radio show.] I had the invitation on my desk and couldnt decide. Eventually the date came and went, so I guess that was the answer, ... Saturday at 6 p.m. is the heart of the Sabbath. It just didnt seem like the right thing to do, and I didnt want to spend the weekend away from home and my kids.”

“It wasnt that expectations changed. But [teens] went from general expectations of success to having no idea of the right thing to do. In the 60s there was a strong prejudice against careerism. We were self-indulgent and self-destructive.”

“[] Some people dont progress; some are just frozen in time, ... But to look at our generation, we hope that from the leaps and bounds we made, in transgressing our differences, future generations will be able to build from how far weve come.”

“I saw a great film over the weekend.”

“[In an April 2003 white paper for the conservative Foundation for the Defense of Democracies titled] The Betrayal of Captain America ... Marvel Comics and other publishers are disseminating comic books that actively promote a destructive cynicism and distrust of the United States government.”

“Americans spend an average of 29 hours a week watching television ... which means in a typical life span we devote 13 uninterrupted years to our TV sets! ... Cutting down just an hour a day would provide extra years of life — for music and family, exercise and reading, conversation and coffee.”

“March of the Penguins, ... the motion picture this summer that most passionately affirms traditional norms like monogamy, sacrifice and child rearing.”

“March of the Penguins, ... the motion picture this summer that most passionately affirms traditional norms like monogamy, sacrifice and child-rearing.”

“Look, this is not a movie for kids. It is a movie that does put that violence in context and it shows the idea of sacrifice, and it emphasizes -- in a way that I think a lot of people dont expect -- that this sacrifice, this death, this suffering was chosen by Jesus, at least according to the Gospels account.”

“The subtitles work very well and what it creates is a feeling of authenticity which is extremely unusual in any sort of biblical account.”