Television Quotes - Page 15

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

When I wanted to change the concept of what I was doing, I needed to be more public because it involved more people to collaborate. And I'm doing television now. I have to be honest, I was very afraid to do TV. I said no for 10 years.

The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.

On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement.

Television allows the audience to argue with the creator in a way you don't in a movie.

Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.

Television. An advanced technical method of stopping people from making their own entertainment.

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.

I have made mistakes in the past and been in movies that really weren't good, and that I needed the money at the time, or something -- and the money wasn't even that great. But I needed it, and... they come back on television, those movies... to haunt you. And it's a nightmare!

If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show we've got a really big problem.

The thing that makes me feel young, honestly, is making television. It's the only thing that excites me, the way that you get excited when you're a kid. That's why I still do it.

Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at.

I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.

I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.

Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.

Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply; things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem. We're a world, as I said in The Affluent Society, of filthy streets and clean houses, poor schools and expensive television.

I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.

I'd do entire music videos in my bedroom, where I used to stand in front of my television memorizing the moves to Michael Jackson's 'Beat It.'

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film.

Most Canadians don't understand the House of Commons. They turn on their televisions, see us yelling at one another, and dismiss us as a bunch of fools.

Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.