If I could act in theater, my whole life, and never act in film or television again, and just direct the rest of my life, I would gladly do that.
I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.
Everybody should have a television show. Let's all get television shows!
It's hard to fit everything in and still have episodic television.
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I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes.
[Television executives] are afraid to advertise condoms that could save lives, but do not blush about telecasting a National Geographic special on President Reagan's pelvic plumbing.
But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life outside. The television sets bombard them day by day with the opulence of the larger society.
To be able to actually sit in a theater and watch people get off on anything that I had a part in, is just thrilling. When you work in television, it's an isolating experience. You rarely ever get to watch it with an audience.
If you're doing a recipe on national television, there's really no room for being sloppy or a nonperfectionist.
There are so many brilliant women on television right now.
The pilot system in television is utterly broken. It's a huge waste of money.
Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children.
I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person.
I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.
Being able to take a traditional cable-television subscriber and give them new widget type applications to me is huge.
Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and 'Survivor' clearly remains a hit series.
We wanted to prove that I am not just a provocateur, as the television said [referring to a Fox news clip shown in the film]. It's challenging, but it's not just challenging.
Television is completely another medium.
In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.
My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.
Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.
I have a very primitive sense that if I just turn on a radio or the television, that somebody's playing that stuff for me.
When I write a film, the film gets handed off to a producer and a director and I go my merry way. With television, I am expected and contracted to stick around and actually produce what I've written.
I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers.
