Television Quotes - Page 28

The problem is I want to do everything. I really love all of it, and I love every aspect of movie-making and storytelling, and I love television, I love the Internet. I wish I had time to do absolutely everything.

There is a tradition of television which isn't dross and stands up. Betjeman's programmes, which were made for 2/6d with one man and a cine camera, were amazing to watch because he was such a great talker.

Democracy means free television, not good television, but free.

I can't watch shows like 'The X Factor,' for instance. I just squirm for the people involved, for the way they're being used. It's the cruellest, most ridiculous show on television. It's ruined music, ruined everything.

We often get pigeon-holed as a tough guy, or whatever else. I've been pigeon-holed as a heavy and serious, and almost a baddy, but not quite a baddy, over the years of my work in television, particularly.

Having done stand-up on television and in stand-up specials for like Comedy Central, you learn quickly that for that type of performance you're playing to the camera.

Everyone's very relaxed about brand names in television.

With the coming of television, and the knowledge of how it could be used to seduce voters, the old political values disappeared. Something new, murky, undefined started to rise from the mists.

Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.

The worst thing about television is that everybody you see on television is doing something better than what you're doing. You never see anybody on TV just sliding off the front of the sofa, with potato chip crumbs all over their shirt.

It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing

People seem generally happy to see their favorite world come to life, even if it it slightly changed to fit storytelling for television.

A huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair.

Why is it that adults are always telling kids to go watch television as though we have nothing better to do?

I am really fascinated by human beings, fascinated! One thing I loved about living in New York was that I could sit on my stoop and just watch life happen. It was better than any kind of reality television - way more entertaining and enlightening.

I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

Television is obviously an enormous intruder. Quite often people say they have no time, but in fact they waste a lot of time on things that are not healthy.

And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.

Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.

When I perform on stage, you have to remember my performance or buy another ticket to the party! In television and film, you can see it over and over again.

We all have only one life to live on Earth, and through television we have the choice of encouraging others to demean this life or to cherish it in creative, imaginative ways.

I don't know if you can tell, but I grew up watching a lot of television.

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.

But also movies seem to like me more than television, so I don't get hired a lot for TV for whatever reason.