Television Quotes
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TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.
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The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.
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Richard Nixon... was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial - for Gillette.
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You aren't really anybody in America if you're not on TV.
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I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.
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I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television.
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Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.
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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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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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It's television, after all. No one is dead, even when they die.
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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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I think TV has a lot of influence on pop culture recently, in a way that most of the people that are sort at the top of the music – and now have some sort of TV presence, where they come from the Disney world or something – have a connection with TV now.
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I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.
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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.
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The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.
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A lot of making TV is lightening in a bottle.
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It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.
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I can see television much more easily than I can see features, because the economy and politics of making big, big features seems to me to be narrowing even from what it was.
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Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.
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I think musicians should stay off television generally. I get asked all the time. Those shows are just promoting insipid comedies. Who watches those shows? And whoever does I don't think my music would speak to those people. I don't even want those people to hear what I'm doing.
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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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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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I just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny.
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I watch television. Game shows - I hate the hosts and the people on them, and I love the questions and the answers.
