She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her over the TV set.

— Max Schumacher (William Holden)

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8 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:18:32.846 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Oh, say something, for God's sake.

- I've got nothing to say.

- I won't give you up easily, Max.

- I think perhaps it is better if you move out.

- Does she love you, Max?

- I'm not sure she's capable of any real feelings.

- She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her over the TV set.

- She's very carefully devised a number of scenarios for all of us to play, like the Movie of the Week.

- My God, look at us, Louise. Here we are going through the obligatory middle of Act 2 scorned-wife-throws peccant-husband-out scene.

- But don't worry, I'll come back to you in the end.

- All of her plot outlines have me leaving her and coming back to you, because the audience won't buy a rejection of the happy American family.

[...]

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