Television Quotes
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Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
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If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.
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Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.
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In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't watch a lot of television.
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Let's go back to super-fights. Let's put on fights that are great live or on television.
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Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
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In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
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Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
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It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.
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Oh how television diminishes everything.
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I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.
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I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.
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As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.
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I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.
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I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.
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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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That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.
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Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every 'Idol' winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs.
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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.
