Television Quotes
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I don't really watch TV. I've got the box set of 'Downton Abbey,' which I'm enjoying.
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The experience of reading a novel and watching a television show are quite different. You can't let your audience get ahead of you, and you have to keep the energy and the pace and the drama up. They're very different things.
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I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.
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It's actually just as cool to be on television as to be in a movie, and nobody's ashamed of this back and forth.
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I always wanted to work on films, and when I was starting in television in this country, in Great Britain, there really wasn't any film to be made.
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Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.
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Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.
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When Dr. King was murdered, I had no idea who he was. But as soon as I heard his words on television that night when I was 9 years old, I was dumbstruck, awestruck by their power.
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Whenever you're doing film for television and you look at the budget that you have, which is much more constricted than a movie budget, you think, "God, are they going to be able to do what they say they are?"
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It's easy to give your opinion in front of the television without any responsibility.
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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.
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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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Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low.
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Film is very much about sitting around and talking about ideas, and that's the stuff that I love, but I haven't experienced that yet in the television that I've done so far. It makes me long for movies again because, creatively, I always have a much more fulfilling experience there.
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Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.
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I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.
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I am very careful not to wantonly encourage people to join my industry, or to aspire to work in TV. I am certain that, generally speaking, the wage pressure in the television news industry is downward.
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I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say.
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When people tell you Web content is better than television content, they probably don't mean that, they probably enjoy the format of the Web better than the format of TV.
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The leisure time of children must be constructively directed to wholesome, positive pursuits. Too much time viewing television can be destructive...It is estimated that growing children today watch television over twenty-five hours per week.
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You have to create a bespoke cultural environment. I know this may be a kind of thing that an old person says, but I feel to quite a large extent I was reared by the TV I watched.
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When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.
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I love television. Television is a great medium; I'm fortunate enough to direct amazing television.
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Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.
