If we were meant to read for enjoyment, would God have created television? Read as it was intended - for exercise. The more you read, the more you expand your - what's the word I'm looking for? - your stockpile of words. You must have a stockpile of words that you can pass along to your children for their stockpile.
My fantasy for children's television is that it's not really children's television, it's everybody's television.
I didn't want to do film or commercials or television. That was cheap. That was selling out. I was the classic liberal, left-wing, 'Theater is going to change the world' kind of person. You know, very, very boring.
The idea of being in a television series is a wonderful one to be considered, but you want to make sure it's the right thing for you because if you are fortunate enough to have something go for a long term, you want to make sure that it's something that you really want to be spending a bulk of your time on.
I love the stage. It's terrifying in a way that film and television is not. When you're about to go out, and you're adrenaline just gets out of control, and that can be really daunting.
Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.
The best show on television is Red Sox baseball. Everything else sucks.
I'm hoping that these series, that originally aired in the 80's and 90's, prove to be as entertaining online and on portable devices as they were when first broadcast on network television.
The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.
I would make the movie industry more like the television industry. TV is more material driven. In TV, you can break new stars. TV can take more chances.
I couldn't get any work in television. No one would even meet me, and I had very good agents.
It just happens that there is more employment for puppeteers in preschool television than anywhere else.
When you fall into a midseason slot, you have the sort of blessing of not being on television while you shoot most of your season.
And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992.
I've got to put my kids through school. And I like the security of working every day, which is what television is about.
The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating.
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I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.
We can't negate television. Unfortunately, I do feel in many ways that it did kill my movie career. It did do that. But would I not do it again? Do I have any regrets about doing it? No.
I'd love to be a huge television director. I definitely want to do that. I could imagine me going more and more into that, as I age.
I don't ever want to have a weak episode of television with my name on it.
I'd like to see the Olympics live. I've only watched it on television.
I distrust all television doctors.
There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.
