Television Quotes - Page 38

There are pop-culture things on television [that I like]. Not so much in music at all.

History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.

Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged. But it's in there, deep inside, a spark waiting to set a touch-paper alight.

it was Tark's experience that TV addicts were usually addicted to something else as well. Food, booze, drugs, sex, money, take your pick.

The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form.

I get more emails and calls when it comes to money than probably any other single person on television when it comes to money.

Instead, I watch myself get shot on television.

We've been playing a lot with television. We have some shows set up and then some new shows that are about to be set up. That's gonna be kind of a fun thing for us as producers.

I think musicians should stay off television generally.

I asked Mr. Vann which O levels you need to write situation comedy for television. Mr. Vann said that you don't need qualifications at all, you just need to be a moron.

I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That's still what I am doing. The end.

I've been shooting movies and television shows for now 47 years and I've worked with the best of them and [Kirk Douglas] is the only movie star I ever met.

Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.

Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.

Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.

Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs.

Between the marriages, I shagged my way round television studios like a mechanical digger.

My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.

I absolutely love television, and I don't mean to be vulgar, but as I keep having to explain to people from the movie industry, I get more power and more money doing television, so why on earth would I do a film?

Obviously, television is a writer's medium, so you get a lot more power and authority. With a film, the discipline is having a beginning, middle and end, and having it work in a specific space of time.

The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel in a sense has gotten bigger.

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

You can't reach America's youth with off the mark radio ads or insulting television commercials

They want me on the television shows now because I did so well on Celebrity Assholes.

I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.