I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.
I intend to do more directing TV.
One of the tricks that you have to learn, with episodic TV, is you don't know how many years you're going to be blessed with.
You can't be someone you're not on TV. You can in movies, but not on TV because you can't hide.
When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.
TV has gotten so boring that the only thing I watch is the news.
I would go into periods of depression in my life, and I would feel so alone. I felt that there was no one who understood how I felt, either on TV or in music, and writing really helped me change what I thought and how I felt about myself.
It's TV shows like 'Buffy' and 'Angel' that usually have an incredible cliffhanger every commercial break that amaze me.
I started in TV movies and then had success in my move to features with Night Shift and Splash.
I'm not sure if a grinning Irish guy who is speechless for 45 seconds is going to make good TV.
I did have a tiny moment in a TV movie called My Sweet Charlie, starring Patty Duke.
I would love, obviously, just to keep doing stand-up. That's the constant. That's the thing that I'm going to do for the rest of my life, but also I would like a TV show at some point.
If you are going to ask me what I watch on TV, I would probably have to say the majority of it is stuff on SyFy or Discovery Channel or it's about ghost seekers.
Usually, when you talk about serialized TV, you're talking about one specific beat that you play, over and over again.
I'd like to go the Cher route and act and sing and write and have a TV show and do it all.
When I was a kid, I was always watching genre movies on TV.
I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended.
I spend 80% of my time in my restaurants. Taping my TV shows doesn't take much time, and then they get aired a lot. That's the thing people don't realize.
I don't care if I never do another TV show in my life.
Whatever people see - TV in my mind forms people's opinions.
I don't get to watch Futurama, until it's on TV.
I wish I'd watched less TV.
So many movies are so formulaic because you've got to get it done in an hour and a half. On a TV series, that's where the really interesting stuff can happen.
On TV you can, you know you can cram, you know, 30 people into a closet and have an orgy, and then they can all shoot up, and everybody has cigarettes in their nostrils and their ears. They don't care. So yeah, television is amazing right now.
I'm not a TV junkie outside of sports and history really and stuff like that.
