Tvs Quotes - Page 30

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

It's what I always dreamed of: that you can make TV and everyone would get out of your way and you follow your vision without watering it down.

I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderful than dedicating a certain day to spend time with your family and loved ones, absent of TV, phone, and other interruptions.

There's some great reality TV, and I'm not bagging on it completely.

You can either watch TV or you can make TV.

I respect the rules of TV, the rules of keeping things commercial and interesting and pop-y and fun.

The fun thing about TV is you get the opportunity to discover things, and somebody who starts off in a smaller part can really emerge and surprise you.

I'm not a big TV guy, though.

I read as much as I could, but really just spoke to Chris Chibnall and asked all the pertinent questions. That made me feel like we weren't going to do an off-the-peg Camelot, which has been touched upon in many films and TV series before. I really just picked his brain and, in doing so, I got fired up by tackling Merlin in a fresher angle.

The thing about working on a TV show is that it becomes, very quickly, all consuming.

TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.

I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.

You're just always looking for something new. That's why a lot of people bounce between TV and movies. You have the ability to try something else.

I don't know how people feel,that's the beauty of TV, is they can see us, but we can't see them.

It is true that, with TV, a writer gets a great deal more respect.

There were plenty of times some writers would make some kind of stupid joke to each other and then it was on TV that night or that week.

We didn't have a TV because we didn't have a whole lot of money. My parents would have their friends over - their friends who thought, 'How can you live without a TV?

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.

Being on TV is like being alive, only more so.

I love watching old movies, and some of the holiday-themed ones are really great. I also have a bizarre thing that I'll do: I'll turn on a foreign-language TV station, usually Spanish, and watch a whole show, riveted, even though I have no idea what anyone is saying. I don't know why I find that so addictive, but I do!

Maybe now it's time to take some chances on TV and push the boundaries with what I can do on television.

Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm kind of offered.

Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.

Break all the TVs, burn all the Bibles.

The problem is that people love music and they love television, but people don't love music on TV.