Television Quotes
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As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to work with a lot of people to make something happen, and you got to be prepared, at least in the beginning, to not be too good at your specific task.
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I do come from theater. I didn't spend a lot of time there 'cause once I started in television, I just kind of stayed there.
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Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.
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Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
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My thing in this day and age, with reality television and so much other stuff that is going on, is people want to feel the reality. They want to relate.
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Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to be art. And I would even hold that true to a reality television show... maybe the entire overarching process of the show actually exists as an artistic structure.
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Television is very different than working on film. With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.
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It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.
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It's so important... to have a variety of representation on television.
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A lot of making TV is lightening in a bottle.
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I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.
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Endings of television shows are sometimes such depressing things. It's like you're not going to hang out with these people anymore, and that's bad enough.
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As CEO and then chairman of CNBC, Pamela led the network through a most challenging era in business news reporting. The network has retained its strong profitability, and the CNBC audience continues to be among the wealthiest in all of cable television.
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Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to .... A form of political illiteracy.
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There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.
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If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer.
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I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.
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Television and radio are what I call sequential media; they're not simultaneous media. With simultaneous media, you can scan your eye down an electronic or print page and pick among six or seven stories you might like and want to read. With television and radio, you have to wait until the guy's finished talking about the balloon boy, which I don't have the slightest interest in, to find out that all hell's broken loose in Baghdad. Because they've chosen that day to start with the balloon boy.
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“Modern television evangelists are mostly ignorant men with closed minds who have glimpsed the incredible reach of television – even its political influence – and spend a sizable part of their air time pleading for money.”
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I can't say I enjoy all TV ... I'm enjoying 'Six Feet' because I think it's beautifully written, and wonderfully acted and beautifully produced. I enjoy the odd piece of television.
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I come from television where I feel like I'm in people's living rooms every day so it's not crazy for me to think that like a ten year old would know, but, I don't know.
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I've always approached television from a little more cinematic perspective, if not a much more cinematic perspective because of the shows I have been fortunate enough to work on.
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The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers.
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TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.
