Television Quotes

A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.

Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.

Few parents teach their children how phoney the ads on TV are, how many lies and exaggerations they contain. How could they? These parents were also raised on television ballyhoo.

The lack of predictability with television is something that's constantly changing what your perception of who you think your character is.

Once you start watching a television show that you love you can't stop watching it.

I think it's very rare that you see girl friendships on television. It's always cattiness and all that drama.

I hope to keep working with television. I wouldn't mind doing more.

I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct.

Keep in mind that television, magazines, movies, and even newspapers rarely show images of average-shaped bodies.

I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I wouldn't want to inspire any violence on anyone.

I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing.

I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.

Hollywood was like a mouse being followed by a cat called television.

I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

I created a tone for network television that they hadn't really been seen before. And I have to admit that was really more of an accident. I was just writing the way I write.

I think when you do a season of television you go into it going I'd like the season premiere needs to be amazing. The season finale needs to be amazing.

I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers.

When I write a film, the film gets handed off to a producer and a director and I go my merry way. With television, I am expected and contracted to stick around and actually produce what I've written.

I have a very primitive sense that if I just turn on a radio or the television, that somebody's playing that stuff for me.

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

I think reality television is such a special talent.

I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'

Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.

Television is completely another medium.

We wanted to prove that I am not just a provocateur, as the television said [referring to a Fox news clip shown in the film]. It's challenging, but it's not just challenging.

Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and 'Survivor' clearly remains a hit series.

Being able to take a traditional cable-television subscriber and give them new widget type applications to me is huge.

I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.

I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person.

Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children.

The pilot system in television is utterly broken. It's a huge waste of money.

I hate those people who say 'I don't own a television' - I own one and I watch it whenever I can.

It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.

There are so many brilliant women on television right now.

If you're doing a recipe on national television, there's really no room for being sloppy or a nonperfectionist.

[Television executives] are afraid to advertise condoms that could save lives, but do not blush about telecasting a National Geographic special on President Reagan's pelvic plumbing.

Television gives you the opportunity to create more of an ongoing camaraderie with everyone you're working with.

I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes.

It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

It's hard to fit everything in and still have episodic television.

The idea of the writer/producer in television is much younger than people think it is.

I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.

Having done television, I was used to either being aware whether I got the part within the same day, or within two, three days max.

I like the fact that a modern television and modern drama on cable has characters that are really intricate and deep and have multiple layers.

If I could act in theater, my whole life, and never act in film or television again, and just direct the rest of my life, I would gladly do that.

In television or a movie I bring my own ego and consequently can mess up. In the theatre I learnt very quickly to shut up and listen. Now I am able to get out of my own way.