Limitations are something that I latch onto - like working in genre, or if you're writing TV, there are act breaks, there's a length of time it's supposed to be. The restrictions of budget and sets can be really useful. When you can have everything, it's very hard to make things feel real and lived in.
TV tends to try and fit everyone into a TV mold.
If you had told me in the Seventies and Eighties that TV would be as edgy or edgier than most films, and more intelligently written than most films, I wouldn't have believed it. There's great stuff out there.
Being in TV is insane. The notes you get sometimes, I just don't understand them.
I'm thrilled to have a completely new audience that I can get from Court TV, without it being my own trial. That was the only other way I would have gotten it.
I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky.
Never eat a heavily sugared doughnut before you go on TV.
I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV.
Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level.
I did the figure of Diana in V, a cult TV show seen all over the world.
You know, as I do, actors who, having become worldwide celebrities thanks to a TV series, complain of their lot and declare themselves ready to drop it all.
When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.
If you find a TV series that you like, you like the tone of the TV series or the movie.
Dont take Portlandia too personally - Its just a stupid TV show
Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.
One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me.
I love trainwrecks on live TV.
I think you have a lot of examples on TV of what not to do, you don't have a lot of examples of what to do.
They say that ninety per cent of TV is junk. But ninety per cent of everything is junk.
It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.
Scope movies shown on TV letter-boxed are always the big budget movies.
And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night.
You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
I don't like everybody who I see on TV.
TV can be a long commitment.
