Television Quotes
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I was kind of reared by television, but the BBC, it still had that thing - and people are always invoking that kind of Reithian idea - where you could learn stuff from it. If you put a kid in front of a telly now to be reared by that you'd just have a jibbering idiot, you know what I mean? Just adverts for a start. It's almost like the programmes are an afterthought, the real business of this channel is to sell you things and we're just going to space out those announcements with some crap to watch.
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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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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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I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
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Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.
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Reality television is less honest than YouTube. YouTube is the real reality.
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Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks, then three. Rules began to get formulated that essentially protected that concentrated group.
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Television has raised writing to a new low.
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Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.
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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 like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.
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And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don't grow up with Australian television or British television.
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I always wanted to be known as the Norman Rockwell of television, and 'Happy Days' represented the part of me that wanted to make mainstream America laugh.
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Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
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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 didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.
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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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There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.
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If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.
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You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.
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And for you kids watching at home, remember, the less homework you do and the closer you sit to the TV, the more points you get.
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I only like doing live telly. It's great because you go in and do it and then go home. No edit, no retakes.
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I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.
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We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
