Television Quotes
The cinema was certainly an art, but television can't be, because it is the museum of accidents. In other words, its art is to be the site where all accidents happen. But that's its only art.
I was the youngest in my family. When the other kids went to school, my mother would make them breakfast and then she would go back to bed for an hour, so I was sort of babysat by television.
The Olympics is not a race I want to watch on television and think 'I wonder what I could have done if I was there?
Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.
For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch.
Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.
Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.
McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.
I'm just looking for a kind of project that will have a decent role and is something that I'll really enjoy doing. There are a lot more opportunities in television.
Young people don't want to sit at home and watch television; they'd sooner be out doing their own thing.
I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.
Well I'm not much of a singer. But it's been a really nice time to do film, television, theater and have it all happening at once. That wasn't planned but it just happens.
That's a big battle to win, to be able to do a main title sequence and a theme song these days. That's not something network television does anymore.
One of the big things in television these days is there's no main title sequence anymore.
Television is an isolating experience, sadly enough. I'm sorry to say it. But as good as it ever gets, it's still isolating. You sit in your home and visit with no one.
After more than twenty-five years in television, there are days when I feel like I'm just beginning, because I'm learning new things. I want to be better all the time.
My father was a television director and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.
Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.
Everybody who's been on television more than once wears in public an expression of fatuous affability. Because you may be addressed at any moment by somebody.
The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible to tell you between now and 8:30, please tune in again then.
In television, there's no time. You can't walk around and get into the mood. Nobody is going to wait for you. They're like, "Let's go!," and I'm like, "Wait, I haven't gotten in the mood!"
When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.
The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.
I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.
Isn't it interesting that we place deadbolt locks on our doors to keep evil influences out and then allow and even invite evil influences into our home through television.
At the end of the day, a television, a computer, or a smart phone is just a device through which one can access content. The content itself is what matters, not the device.
I'm very physical. I grew up boxing. I've done almost all of my own stunts in movies and in television.
Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.
Every song that has been a hit for me has been honest and truthful. I have to believe that same formula will work on this (television) show. It has to be believable and honest.
There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.
If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.
Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.
In film and television you have to be able to see the whole picture in a different way than you do on the stage because you shoot out of order and you're working with technology.
Television was the only band of its ilk that treated the guitar with delicacy, not as simple rhythm support for teenage aggression.
Television was one of those magnificent kind of events where everything fell into place.
Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to do is switch on their television sets.