Television Quotes
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You aren't really anybody in America if you're not on TV.
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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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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 just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny.
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Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.
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When I was your age, television was called books.
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There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.
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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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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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Definitely, I want to continue doing films and television, but my heart is in music. I've written for most of my life.
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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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Growing up with violence, with inescapable expertly choreographed brutality in every home builds not only a kind of desensitization for it, but it also creates a market for violent entertainment by people for whom even what they see on television is not enough, is not graphic enough, is not explicit enough, and some movie productions, some big productions really cash in on that market. What is peculiar about this is that as time goes on, a greater dosage is necessary to satisfy this need.
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A lot of making TV is lightening in a bottle.
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The problem with television isn't the number of horizontal scanning lines. It's the lines of dialogue spoken by the actors.
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I think that as television is evolving, the line between TV and film is becoming more and more blurred. This is both a good and bad thing.
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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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Television was our chief tool in selling our policy.
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When I first started making films 30 years ago, people would comment that I was a woman. But strangely, when I was in television, no one ever mentioned that I was a woman. Maybe it was because television and film were different. There were more women working in television than men. There was no split in terms of work - everyone was considered equal.
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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 don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things.
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What I want to do is create great content on television and movies. It is not my role to program only for Latinos, and you can't really assume that Hispanics only want Hispanic content. But I do think that we are severely underrepresented in television and film. And instead of complaining about not seeing ourselves, we should become film producers, directors, and writers, and tell our story.
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They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.
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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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We’d been going home with television every night for years, but suddenly we had reason to respect it in the morning.
