Television Quotes

I learned my business in the theater and in television, particularly working with the actors. You can learn much more in the theater than directing a movie, because then you have no time when you are shooting a movie to really work with the actors. You have to learn this craft somewhere else.

The mass media in the days of newspapers and television it's hard to be able to find a story that's about just what you're interested in at the time you're interested in it.

If you do television, and it's great, it's the best job there is. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. I love that it's like theater too, and the audience, and it's so short, like twenty minutes... It's like a Haiku or something.

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.

People magazine had been around for a short period of time, but nobody had thought about putting entertainment news on a nightly basis on television.

I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV.

None of those jobs were high-profile, but once I was on ET, people then began to associate me with that show. So, that is the thing that many people know me for. When in effect, that was the end of my television career.

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.

The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

I am pretty much a sucker any really bad reality television.

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

It's definitely the highest rated pre-school show on Cable. It's difficult to mix markets that way in terms of ratings. It's hard to tell, you know, where channel 12, or Public Television, is.

In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top.

I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.

Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.

When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.

You have to relish the challenge of television.

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming.

I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say.

When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.

For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am devoted to that and that is what I work from. Any research I do or any preparation I do on my own is all ultimately in service of that.

I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what enamored me as a kid, and that's what really got me hooked. You could say that's where it all began.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.