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It is possible to work out of New York on film and television and still not lose your connection to theater.
Even if tomorrow will be the end of the world, people will still continue to watch television for whole day!
I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a television.
There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.
You know, I've never been a comic book person, just because that's not my gig and I don't have a television.
I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.
Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.
The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.
Film and television essentially feel the same when you're doing it, because it's the same technical approach.
Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.
I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.
From 2001-2008, I was the host and a writer for the WB's weekly television program 'Weddings Portland Style.'
Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
Even though I'm English, I've all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general.
Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
Well what a turn-up. From professional footballer to television presenter to green politician. Whatever next?
Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.
The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.
I think we're dealing with a realm of human experience that doesn't get all that much attention on television.
With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well.
My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.
You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
I'm a huge television fan, in general. I love TV. I love movies. I always have. It's what I do, and I love it.
Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.
As a matter of fact - it'll probably ruin my movie career - but I think better storytellers are in television.
Television: The device that brings into your living room characters you would never allow in your living room.
I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.
What exactly is 'viewer discretion'? If viewers had discretion, most television shows would not be on the air.
Children used to be outside. Now the streets are empty. People are indoors looking at television or something.
I've taken the experiences that I've had in the theatre and applied them to film and television and now games.
Though the film industry is my primary area of work, television allows me to reach out to the audience quicker.
I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.
I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.
I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.
There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.
Sometimes doing a movie for a short period of time is better than committing eight months to a television show.
If you're doing a recipe on national television, there's really no room for being sloppy or a nonperfectionist.
Apparently, when Twin Peaks was on the air in Spain, something like 50 percent of televisions were tuned to it.
The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
I generally prefer to stay quiet before a performance. I don't like television cameras, but an interview is OK.
It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.
Ultimately, the dollars will have to come from television. Will it come from television tomorrow, I don't know.
I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.
'Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level.
My fantasy for children's television is that it's not really children's television, it's everybody's television.
The fans always ask me, 'Is Si that crazy in real life?' and I said, 'No, hey, he tones it down for television.'
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
Who is interested in that? Who is interested in the warm and fuzzy? There's enough warm and fuzzy on television.
Such a huge amount of respect for people who regularly present live television - it's a skill and it's not easy.