Television Quotes
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I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.
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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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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
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I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.
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Making a musical television show was always the ultimate dream. But I really didn't think it would ever happen. Because who's going to make a musical television show?
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Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.
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I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
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I moved to L.A. and watched a lot of local television news, and I started to see the burn logos up on the upper right hand corner - On-Scene Video, RMG Media Group, and all these other ones. I just became intrigued with it.
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I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
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I love mysteries on television – the more psychologically complex the better.
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I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.
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It's a sci-fi show on network television, and everybody knows that it's an amazing feat that we've been on for so many years. The fans, the press and everyone has been so incredibly kind and so incredibly supportive that we feel like it's a success, in any way, shape or form. It's an expensive canvas.
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Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.
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I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.
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Hearing aids didn't cause any problem with my social life, my career, no problem at all, and I've been wearing them for a long time. As a matter of fact, once I became an entertainer and started working on television, I was probably the first performer to talk about hearing problems on the air.
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I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.
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I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.
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I've raised my daughter with no television.
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I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.
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That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.
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No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.
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The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.
