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I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.
We firmly believe the future of television is online, and Hulu has recognized the value of quality long-form series.
Don't believe something just because you didn't read it in the papers. Wait until you haven't seen it on television.
Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.
What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman.
There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program.
If I hear the word 'retire,' it makes me want to throw up. And then do what? Sit around all day watching television?
While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.
Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
In television, you can leave so many things open-ended. For everything you wrap up, you can open another one or two.
I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct.
In television, and especially in a situation comedy, you kind of play yourself, or at least the essence of yourself.
I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
I think if you work in television everyday, and you must be privy to everything happening in television, then do so.
Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.
You're required to be outspoken in journalism, and in television you're exposed anyway, because everyone watches it.
I've found the thing in life that I adore, which is working in science television. It's just a big adventure, really.
The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.
Even if I get into television and movies, I'm never going to quit YouTube because of the bond I have with my viewers.
I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.
I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
I was writing for live television. And I said to myself, someday, soon as I can, I have got to do a situation comedy.
I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.
People say I owe a lot to television. The fact is I was a star long before television. What TV made me is unemployed.
Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television and yet they are absolutely invisible.
It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.
Chris Martin is more of a musician and hasn't really put himself out there as a television host or anything like that.
Being able to take a traditional cable-television subscriber and give them new widget type applications to me is huge.
Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?
What's amazing about doing movies, compared to television, there's an ending you can see. There's an enthusiasm to it.
The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.
The theater commitment is hard, especially in conjunction with a television commitment. That's a big, long commitment.
It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.
There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.
I never thought that I would be so attracted to television, but I don't think gigs like 'Dexter' come along too often.
I don't like to channel surf. You guys like it, don't you. You guys like to change the channel. We like to change you.
I don't watch much television. Yeah, that's pretty funny. I don't know where The Daily Show stand politically, do you?
Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort.
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
I think right now television is the best that it’s ever been, and I think that it’s the worst that film has ever been.
I believe that the Internet is the information highway. I'm religious about this. I don't think it's cable television.
For me, 'Arrested Development' is the cornerstone of recent television comedy. It's so incredibly flawless and perfect.
I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
But I'm kind of spoilt when it comes to comedy. I was on 'Friends', which was one of the funniest things on television.