“Television can stir emotions, but it doesn't invite reflection as much as the printed page.” EmotionTelevisionPagesReflectionInvitesPrinted Author:Bill Moyers
“I think people today are very cynical. They need to bring other people down. Reality television and tabloid magazinesnever before did we need to see movie stars taking out their garbage. But all of a sudden, it's front-page newstrying to figure out who's dating whom, all that stuff. Who cares?” PeopleThinkingNeedsTryingRealityCareTodayStarsStuffFrontsFiguresTelevisionNewsPagesDatingMagazinesCynicalWho CaresMovie StarGarbageTabloidsReality Television Author:Scarlett Johansson
“The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great deal of precision and accuracy. Often a description of that sort, which will work in a book because people can read it slowly - they can turn the pages back and so on - doesn't really work on TV because it interrupts the flow of the moving image.” PeopleBookMovingTurnsChallengesDealsTelevisionTvsPagesFlowTendenciesDescriptionAccuracyPrecision Author:Brian Greene
“The actual time you're acting is miniscule compared to the time you're getting ready to do the work. The big difference on series television is, there's not a lot of hanging-out time. You're pumping those pages out, you're doing six, seven, eight pages a day. And I like that pace.” BigsDifferencesActingTelevisionReadySixPagesSeriesSevenEightHanging OutPace Author:Joe Mantegna
“With television, it's difficult to do some things. You have to shoot so many minutes a day, so you always have to be prepared or you won't be able to complete the number of pages that you have scheduled for that day.” AbleDifficultNumbersMinutesTelevisionPagesPreparedBe Prepared Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“When I look at my career, the bulk of it has been television, and I love working in television. But there's a speed at which you do it. You're doing seven to ten pages a day on a series, and it's hard to feel like you're doing the detail-oriented work that I like to do.” FeelsLooksHas BeensHardCareersTelevisionLike YouTenPagesSeriesSevenDetailsSpeed Author:Sarah Paulson
“For those of us at Marvel Television, it always begins with the story. It's all about the script. It's making sure it's there, on the page. So, we needed to go to a group of individuals who have not only created some of the most memorable animated characters, like Ben 10 and Generator Rex, but also had done two seasons of our very successful Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man series, and that's the Man of Action guys. But, it wasn't just that.” MenTwoDoneCharacterStoriesActionGuyIndividualSuccessfulGroupsTelevisionHe ManNeededPagesUltimateSeasonsSeriesScriptsMemorableSpidersAnimatedSpider ManGeneratorMost Memorable Author:Jeph Loeb
“Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me.” CharacterFilmSpeakTelevisionPages Author:Yvonne Strahovski
“I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later that night on the front pages of all the newspapers. Then I got it.” HomeBigsNightSawsFrontsTelevisionNewsPagesNewspapers Author:Paul Simon
“This is something I learned when I was working at a newspaper: when you put something on paper, whether it's words or pictures, and it's staring back at the reader, they are now alone in the room with them for as long as it takes them to turn the page. Whereas on television, the images fly by.” LongTurnsRoomsTelevisionReaderPaperPagesNewspapersStaring Author:Brian Michael Bendis
“Those of us with a microphone who are blessed with the gift of being in the public eye have a special opportunity to give voice to all those groups whose activism is sometimes ignored or put on the back pages with the the dumbing down of television and the tabloidization of journalism. As Ralph Nader called it, "sound barks," not even sound bites.” GivingSometimesEyeOpportunitySoundVoiceGroupsSpecialTelevisionPagesBlessedActivismJournalismBitesIgnoredBarkMicrophonesPublic EyeSound BitesDumbing Down Author:Bonnie Raitt
“On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.” LooksTelevisionDependsPagesRadioMagazinesComicAcceptable Author:Bil Keane
“In an age where there's so much active misinformation and its packaged very well and it looks the same when you see it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television. Where some overzealousness on the part of, you know, a U.S. official is equated with constant and severe repression elsewhere.” KnowsWellsLooksAgeTurnsTelevisionPagesConstantActiveOppressionOfficialsElsewhereSevereTurn-onMisinformationFacebook Page Author:Barack Obama
“If you can't, or won't, think of Seymour, then you go right ahead and call in some ignorant psychoanalyst. You just do that. You just call in some analyst who's experienced in adjusting people to the joys of television, and Life magazine every Wednesday, and European travel, and the H-bomb, and Presidential elections, and the front page of the Times, and God knows what else that's gloriously normal.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsJoyFrontsTelevisionNormalPagesElectionIgnorantMagazinesPresidentialBombsGod KnowsAnalystsWednesdayAdjustingPresidential Election Author:J. D. Salinger
“Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which women are poisoned or are doing the poisoning. She does not read these books as a romantic lonely hearts turning pages in the isolation of her room, not at all. She is instead an educated spirit with a sense of irony. She loves the gloom of these period novels, especially as kitsch, but beneath it all she finds that a part of her indentifies with all that darkness.” HeartKindDoeBookSpiritRoomsDarknessNovelMysteryCenturyTelevisionPeriodsPagesLonelyEducatedIronyIsolationAbsentGloomNineteenth CenturyPoisoningKitschPbsLonely HeartAbsent Friends Author:Steve Martin