Television Quotes
-
Oh how television diminishes everything.
-
Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
-
I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
-
I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
-
I'm a television junkie.
-
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.'
-
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.
-
I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
-
In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
-
In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.
-
Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.
-
Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
-
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
-
I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
-
Television isn't my career. Business is.
-
Downton Abbey is the most popular drama in the history of public television. When the whole of the TV universe is fragmenting, that isn't just impressive. It's almost impossible. But here we are.
-
I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
-
When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
-
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.
-
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.
-
No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
-
I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.
-
I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.
-
I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.
