There wasn't even a movie theater in the town. Nothing. Not even any fast food chains of any kind. Regardless, I knew that I was going to leave and become an actor, and be in film and television, and I've done it.
I started in this industry [television] as a kid doing commercials. Ever since I was introduced to it, I loved it.
I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.
I never thought I would become a television host, but I never thought anybody would pay me to just talk.
There are many things clogging the television waves. You've got to fight for every bit of television households you can get.
The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.
Television is the most interesting hobby I've ever had.
Ive spent over 25 years in the television industry, the direct response industry. I met a lot of people and certainly learned the power of commercials and their brand building potential.
I like to multitask. I love the process of the storytelling in television. I love the serial. Even my stab at doing a procedural show was still very much serialized. I'm such a serialized storyteller. I feel like the story never ends. I want it to go and go and go. However, with cable and streaming now it's endless. You can do anything.
I love to go back and write and direct another film one day, but that's on the backburner for now because I'm involved with so much television at the moment.
I suppose it’s true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. “M.A.S.H.” comes to mind. So does The Iliad.
I mean, there's definitely a difference between film and live performances or live television. But at the same time, it's just performing. No matter what, it's performing.
Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp.
Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.
I'm sorry I'm crying again on national television.
At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental cases against us, we don't have a series of outdoor-advertising companies.
I want people to say, "Oh my God, I'm laughing out loud at television."
I grew up watching British television because I lived so close to Canada.
My criteria for doing a television series never changed. I wanted more stability, I wanted more of a sense of family, I wanted to do light comedy.
Part of what I love about television is that my imagination gets to keep going. It doesn't stop.
It's the digital era. What makes it exciting is that it's both the Golden Age of television and the Wild West of television. Something is happening now that's unprecedented, and we know that we're a part of it. What could be more exciting or better than that? You can't lose because you're on the pony and you're staking the claim.
I've done a lot of television in life, and I don't remember the last time that I felt so consistently happy [working with Jenji Kohan].
I think Shonda Rhimes came to change television for women forever.
I have the dream to continue being in an art context, but also be able to continue doing stuff in television on the web.
Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.
