Television Quotes
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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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Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.
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People know elections, like television commercials, are not real.
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I don't watch television because I have a tiny baby daughter. I'm useless.
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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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Before I started on 'Borgen', people introduced me to some great American box-sets to convince me that TV could be good. I now watch them all the time. Amy Poehler is very funny in 'Parks and Recreation' and 'In Treatment,' with Gabriel Byrne, is also really good.
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Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.
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It's so fun to do theater, because as opposed to television, you just keep doing it again and again and again - every night. Sometimes it lands beautifully, and sometimes it lands just beside of it. It's like throwing a horseshoe. It's great fun.
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What's amazing about doing movies, compared to television, there's an ending you can see. There's an enthusiasm to it.
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Each of us lives at the intersection of many identities, it's important that television characters reflect the full diversity of the LGBT community.
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I don't subscribe to the school of thought that as a feature film producer I shouldn't dabble in television, web content, or even comic books...
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Inspiration is everywhere - film, television, newspapers, novels, overheard conversations, whatever you can tap into. It's out there, and I've been at this long enough to know that it won't always just come to me; sometimes I have to go get it.
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We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that.
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The world is going mad at an accelerating rate and television is the Typhoid Mary of this madness.
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New Year’s has never been a real holiday to me anyway. There’s no gifts, no feast, just…bad TV.
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It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don't they call somebody in their area? Don't they know about that?
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Prejudice against womenis many, many times intensified against older women. You are viewed not as an intellect but as a body.... Astonishingly, even women's liberation has paid extraordinarily little attention to the older woman and to the fact that her job is limited because she is older. They say that women shouldn't be sex objects, but you damned well better be a sex object if you want to get ahead in television.
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I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was just no one else to do it and what I didn't realise and what people don't understand now about television is that we used to do about five shows a day.
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Anybody who wants to make television has a tremendous problem because it's a financially restrictive media in this day and age.
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Getting into television was a total fluke.
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Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them.
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I'm extremely proud I'm an Asian female and I'm on television, because there aren't many of us.
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My brother was older, and since the law of the west was fairly entrenched in our household, whoever was bigger got control of the television. I sat mesmerized, and horrified, through hundreds of gunfights and became emotionally involved with everyone in Bonanza and Gunsmoke.
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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.
