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Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it.
If television viewing choices serve as a valid measure of our society, they who choose evil surely are more numerous than they who choose good.
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.
While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.
By the time I'm 40, the hope is that I'll be solidly in daytime television and producing the various other experts we've brought along the way.
I made True Detective like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything.
I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television.
If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.
When most kids were hiding their eyes or cowering under the covers, I was three inches away from the television when horror movies were played.
I ended up doing literally every television show ever made, for at least a day. It was great to see how that worked. That's how I cut my teeth.
Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs.
What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a great many people.
I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.
Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power.
In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.
I've done so much drama on television that it's very hard to sit down and watch other actors work. I find my interest is more in the real world.
I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.
Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time.
These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really.
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.
I know it is one of the most important instruments and inventions, the electric guitar, to me, since television or movies or anything like that.
Shah Rukh Khan started his career with television, and now he is a superstar. You can't generalise and say that TV actors can't make it to films.
We're not a media company. We don't own media. We don't own music. We don't own films or television. We're not a media company. We're just Apple.
If I could act in theater, my whole life, and never act in film or television again, and just direct the rest of my life, I would gladly do that.
When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
I made 'True Detective' like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything.
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.
Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.
One Tree Hill was my very first television audition; it was a fairytale. I feel really lucky to have that level of success right out of the gate.
I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?
My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.
I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series.
It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.
Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.
If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.
I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is of little interest.
My criteria for doing a television series never changed. I wanted more stability, I wanted more of a sense of family, I wanted to do light comedy.
One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.
I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but there is a difference between the John Cena character you see on television and me as a human being.
Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.
The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven't started yet.
The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'
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. Optimus Prime maybe?
Well television is grueling. The hours are grueling, it's hard work, and there's a lot of pressure to get it done without a lot of rehearsal time.
With television you are producing hours and hours of music and for film it is a shorter experience for both the audience and for you as a composer.