When people asked me what I did for a living, I told them I make pilots. They thought I was a stewardess.
My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.
I try to get away. Its very unusual for me to be in one spot for so many months, which is one of the things Ive had to get used to for a television show. I enjoy going on adventures and seeing the planet.
If I did a TV show, it would have to be in North London because I'm a bit of a homebody, and my work takes me away from home enough. But yeah absolutely. Television has never been more exciting than it is now.
I suppose I would like to be remembered as one of the funniest men that people have seen on television.
I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.
I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.
Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.
I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling.
I made True Detective like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything.
In modern society most of us don't want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other things like religion, sports, politics, a book - we want to forget ourselves. Anytime we have leisure, we want to invite something else to enter us, opening ourselves to the television and telling the television to come and colonize us.
TV holds a close second to cars for destroying our society. It's a failed experiment.
If you make something good, eventually the audience will be there, eventually there will be something on the Internet that is a cultural phenomenon that's not available anywhere else, that's not available on television broadcasts, that's not on cable, it's only on some Web site. And the world will find it. And when that happens, it will be what the 'kiss' was to the theatrical movie business, 5,000 years ago or whenever it was.
Television is a tough business. It's not that easy to jump shops.
Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.
That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it.
Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation.
I wanted to describe the world at the same time, through image, express what I felt. It was the time of the great documentary filmmakers: Richard Leacock, Joris Ivens. Today, television has put an end to this type of filmmaking.
I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.
I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.
I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.
The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.
It's not surprising that you wouldn't see that side of me on television, but in real life I find the world to be quite a funny place.
