Television Quotes - Page 12

To move from a discussion of the early relationship between theatre and television to an examination of the current situation of live performance is to confront the irony that whereas television initially sought to replicate and, implicitly, to replace live theatre, live performance itself has developed since that time toward the replication of the discourse of mediatization.

I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio.

Let me complain-it's good for television.

There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program.

My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

You never know what's going to happen with television these days.

Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.

I love films, I love movies, I love television, I love television series, I love the internet, I love anything that enhances images. But most of all, I love, love movies.

A human being is like a television set with millions of channels.... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty.

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.

With "We Are The World," I can't even eat when I watch that on television. If I'm eatin' some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.

in television the product is not the program; the product is the audience and the consumer of that product is the advertiser. The advertiser does not 'buy' a news program. He buys an audience.

the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.

Some of the greatest films and television have only been seen by the people that make them. And some of the greatest music is only heard by the people who make it.

I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980

Television is much more difficult because at every moment, the network can force you to change things based on their belief about what would make it popular. You’re in a constant debate with a gun to your head, and the gun is cancellation. So it’s hard to win the arguments.

I think television is a medium which has the potential to do great things but has been traduced by these... terrible people who rise through the ranks.

I've always been a fan of advertising, I've always been a fan of television, I've loved commercials, I've loved all the jingles, I loved all the stuff

It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.

English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'

It is no accident that television has been dominated by a handful of corporate powers. Neither is it accidental that television has been used to re-create human beings into a new form that matches the artificial, commercial environment. A conspiracy of technological and economic factors made this inevitable and continue to.

If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level.