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I grew up watching movies on television and computer screens. They affected me just as powerfully in the small private space.
I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.
I didn't have an imaginary friend, and even if I did I'm sure it would have been derivative of something I saw on television.
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
Public Broadcasting System an entity designed to create an informed citizenry rather than to deliver consumers to advertisers.
In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.
Television is like a library. There are a lot of library books in it, and you have to pick and choose what you take out of it.
Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.
Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television - or just written.
I grew up speaking Korean, but my dad spoke English very well. I learned a lot of how to speak English by watching television.
Outwit, outlast, outplay. It's the tagline for the television show Survivor and it's damn near what presidenting is like, too.
What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
I get more emails and calls when it comes to money than probably any other single person on television when it comes to money.
I think Oz is the type of show that makes you turn away in fear and in horror, so for a television show, thats pretty intense.
When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.
I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling.
The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.
I can't imagine anybody who has spoken to more, or presented more non-famous people on television in the history of the world.
I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.
So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.
Work is work for me. I can do any work in the field of acting. Be it films, television or theatre, I am willing to do anything.
Any time you can create something that gets to a large audience is fantastic. And television still gets you to a huge audience.
I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.
In 1970, television ate my family. The Andy Warhol prophecy of 15 minutes of fame for any and everyone blew up on our doorstep.
We all [Ed Simmons,Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis] started together, so there were no rules - anything we wrote became television.
I'm disappointed in television. I'm disappointed first of all in the audience that will not let stories be told in longer form.
I don't really study television or how things do or don't change. So I don't know anything about that. I'm just a stupid actor.
My generation is so tied up in television, computers, and video games. When we were born, MTV was already there. It was normal.
A lot of people want to retire; I couldn't. You don't retire in our business. What, play golf and watch television? Oh, please.
The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.
I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.
Honestly, all of 'Breaking Bad' was the best television experience of my entire life - the writing, the crew, the other actors.
I was the youngest producer of a national television show when I was twenty-five. I took it to 182 markets. Tremendous success.
Anybody who wants to make television has a tremendous problem because it's a financially restrictive media in this day and age.
English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.
My only problem, and this has been a constant worry on television, is time management. The deadlines on television are killing.
You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.
And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992.
Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?
When television captured the popular imagination of the 1950s, a rash of movies satirized Hollywood while also mythologizing it.
Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.
I believe that those of us who are the producers and purveyors of television, I believe that we are the servants of this nation.
It's become impossible to enjoy most quality television shows because the hurt or endangered women device is so frequently used.
I’ve worked in television for 10 years straight. If I were a man, it wouldn’t be considered strange [to have confidence] at all.
I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.
If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.
Electricity is a wonderful thing. Do you realise that if we didn't have electricity, we'd be watching television by candle light?
The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.
I started [in television] as a local sportscaster in Oklahoma City and that will always be my love. It's kind of what I live for.
Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.