Television Quotes - Page 37

HBO exists because people must have a place to say "f***" on television as many times as they can.

No matter how much programming improves, however, media savants tend to see the medium living out numbered days. It's feared that the Internet will do to TV what TV did to the movies in the 1950s. But instead of panicking, the networks are finding ways to co-opt the Web.

Like sugar and, oh - let's say the most tabloidy and gossipy reality television programs - credit is, for millions, genuinely addictive.

Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess.

I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful.

My day job is writing for television. So I've been on enough sets, and I know how things work.

I would do nightclubs and concerts - particularly concerts, which is mostly what I did - and only people who already agreed with me would show up. People weren't going to come and inadvertently turn on their television set and find this offensive stuff coming out.

But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn't, there was something wrong with the material, or with you.

It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.

There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.

Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape.

[Television] is a great medium for writers, because there's just no time for a studio to interfere very long. You write it, you shoot it; it's on TV.

Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.

Television has changed. The very nature of it is not even television anymore.

Good television people have a sense of what television people relate to.

There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors, yes, we love to do theater because it's our story. Nobody can edit it, the curtain goes up, and it's ours for two hours or three, or whatever. And we tell it.

I've never seen a professor of religion on television before, and I thought that was fascinating. The creative tension with spirituality vs. practicality in the world of politics is a vital conversation.

Televisions are devices with screens that things appear on.

The future of television is what our competitors have been doing for years.

I watched a lot of cooking shows when I was younger on PBS and TLC and those channels. It's a very cool genre of television.

I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and television. Everything definitely slows down and we have more time in film.

Television is kind of restrictive in its directing, but it would be nice to get some chops doing TV.

Digital television is no longer a probability, it is a certainty.

I was cable when cable wasn't cool.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.