Television Quotes
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The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.
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Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
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The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television, and yet they are absolutely invisible.
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Film and television are very different. On the TV show, we do seven or eight scenes a day, so time and money are of the essence, and we have zero room for creativity because you've got to do each scene in only five takes. Whereas, on a film, you have an entire day to film one scene, so you have so much time to choose how you want to fill in a scene.
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I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.
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I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.
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Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'
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In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
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So many people complain that there aren't enough Latinos on television, and yet when they are, they need support.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.
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I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
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I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.
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American movie audiences now just don’t seem to be very interested in any kind of ambiguity or any kind of real complexity of character or narrative - I’m talking in large numbers, there are always some, but enough to make hits out of movies that have those qualities. I think those qualities are now being seen on television and that people who want to see stories that have those kinds of qualities are watching television.
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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Television is generally on the conservative side, so if you're seeing it represented on TV, that probably means it's really out there in the real world.
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I'm a television junkie.
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I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
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Television isn't my career. Business is.
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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
