Television Quotes
Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.
Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.
More and more of our finest actors are finding room for themselves in the world of television - but I truly believe it's because some of the best stories are being told there.
I think in future people will take television in eyedrop form. All media will be in eyedrops.
The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal.
Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That's what we do.
Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.
If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer.
If time is a staircase, reality is a Slinky. Decades can be parsed. Television, frequently accused of destabilizing life, is actually what stitches the segments together.
I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station. I actually bought a congressman.
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
I've made a connection with the television audience by being a proud Latino man. I am passionate for what I do, courageous in the face of peril, honest and straightforward.
Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.
I hate television. I hate the internet. I hate cell phones. I hate cameras. I hate everything that destroys creativity.
When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh shut up' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining.
I'm a comedian, and I like to work on my live show, and if I'm doing television, I don't have time to work on my live show, and I can become a lame comic, and that sucks.
The only thing I really get snobby about is - not food or wine or certainly not television - I would say I get snobby about skin-care regimens and people taking care of their skin in the right way.
Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.
I regret not having enough training, I trained for a year at The Royal Court, but I very quickly went off to do films and television.
When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.
The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
The defining problem of contemporary television is trust: Can you believe what you see on television, does television treat people fairly, is it healthy for society?
People are aware of what I stand for through television. Nobody gets rich on TV but you build brand. That's what I'm attempting to do.
And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job.
I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.
Television for a child creates such a high bar of stimulus that nothing else competes. A beautiful day is absolute crap to a kid who watches tv.
I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.
We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio.
Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience.
It's become impossible to enjoy most quality television shows because the hurt or endangered women device is so frequently used.
It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.
I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.
I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
It's the demand in many ways of modern television drama - it's very low key and naturalistic, and, generally speaking, the characters that I've played have not been low key and naturalistic.
When you do television, you have this opportunity to drop these subtle hints everywhere. The way you say things, for example, sometimes those seeds turn into trees.
As a matter of fact - it'll probably ruin my movie career - but I think better storytellers are in television.
One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of nourishment.
