‘TV is trying to make the world a single image’

Film maker Samira Makhmalbaf, daughter of acclaimed Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, in conversation with H. Shaji, in The Times of India:

How do you see the medium of television?

In the rush towards modernity, the world often misses the values of civilisation. Television is teaching us to think in a very cliched manner. TV is trying to make the world a single image/voice. It is trying to make all humanity one person, thus loosing the character of being human.

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