Television Quotes

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

At a very basic level, I think television exists for game shows, and I think it always will.

I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose - that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it's just not something I want to do. I overdosed.

I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.

Television is intensely personal.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

I've raised my daughter with no television.

The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.

Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.

You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto.

The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.

There is no doubt that directing television has helped hone my directing skills. What television teaches you is to be efficient and to think on your feet. You have to adhere to strict deadlines and budget constraints.

It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important.

I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

I was initially a leading man, but only on television.

Anytime that the Arizona Cardinals play football, I scream at the top of my lungs at the television. And I have certain dances that I do.

In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

See, I don't watch reality television anymore. I watched a little bit of it for awhile, but I found it turned my soul into a black sludge, and I just did not find it healthy or good for me at all, because I would watch it and be disgusted, disgusted.

Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea.

Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.

I've never been shocked by anything on television, except the news.

I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.

Aaron Spelling went further than anyone has ever gone for television.

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.