Television Quotes

I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio.

In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way.

I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.

Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums.

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.

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.

I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.

I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.

I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.

I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it.

I want to make smart television.