Television Quotes - Page 57

Getting a second thing isn't always easy in this busy, competitive television market.

Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.

I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect.

I like television that grabs you by your throat.

No one looks at a television, and no one hears it. It's a poison.

I don't think it's like eastern mysticism, which leaves the person whole. It's really another form of cancer, television.

Television masturbates its audience even though the audience is not really watching. It masturbates orifices the audience doesn't have. It sticks holes in the viewer and masturbates in those holes. Then it finally gets into the brain and masturbates there, too.

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

The Buccaneers was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.

I've been trying to figure out what moment The Lone Ranger came into our lives. We've always just known about The Lone Ranger. It's common knowledge. I don't ever remember watching the television show.

My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

I like to move quickly. I don't like the nature of television of just sitting around and overshooting.

I had never worked in television before Freaks and Geeks, and New Girl is the first time since that Ive worked on a series that is actually a series and not just a pilot.

If I find the right character, I don't care if it's a film, a television show or a play, I'm gonna do it. Everybody crosses over and it's just one big pool of stuff now.

Television just turns people into nightmares. The egos! I call it Omarosa syndrome.

There was only so much television you could do.

Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves. "We watch television," Dave said.

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.

Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.

Did television execs have souls? Now, that was an existential question and a half.

First of all, directing was the most incredible experience. When you run a television show, directing is something that not many people actually get the time to do because you're so consumed with everything that's going on. You can't just disappear.

A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.

To understand this whole area, you have to stop thinking like a viewer and start thinking like a network programming exec.

Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.