“I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who live there.” PeopleEnoughFactsVoiceTelevisionAmountConsciousBritishBritish Television Author:Chris O'Dowd
“It was the economic benefit,You make a comfortable living in public service and you get a fairly comfortable retirement, if you watch your pennies and you're not extravagant. But in television, if a show goes, you make a substantial amount of money. So, economically it just didn't make sense for me not to.” IfsShowsWatchesEconomicTelevisionAmountComfortBenefitsComfortableMake SenseRetirementPenniesPublic ServiceExtravagant Author:Mills Lane
“Obese kids watch no more television than kids who aren't obese. All the thin kids watch massive amounts of television, too. There is no statistical correlation between obesity and media use, period.” ChildrenUseKidsWatchesMediaTelevisionAmountPeriodsMassiveObesityCorrelationObese Book:Nurtureshock: Why Everything We Thought About Children is Wrong Source: Nurtureshock: Why Everything We Thought About Children is Wrong
“One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.” FeelsPlayFilmCertainComedyTelevisionAmountDramaEntertainmentSpontaneity Author:Glenn Howerton
“I don't think people have fully processed how deeply television has changed the political process in our own world. Political parties have become vestiges of what they were and individuals with large amounts of money can leapfrog over that process, which can have a positive mediating effect. And so I think there are things to worry about.” PeopleThinkingWorldPoliticalIndividualProcessPartyWorryEffectsChangedTelevisionAmountPolitical Parties Author:Alexander Stille
“Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that.” YearsShowsMightActorsFiveFourTelevisionSeriousMonthsAmountSixSix MonthsTelevision ShowsAnthology Author:Nic Pizzolatto
“Maybe there is no good God. But there is definitely a devil, and his predominant passion is the religion of Protestant fundamentalists. I believe my country is beginning to resemble a theocracy. Using television, the evangelists raise appalling amounts of money which they then invest in the election of mentally disabled obscurantists.” BelieveCountryPassionI BelieveTelevisionAmountDevilRaisesElectionDisabledProtestantsGood GodEvangelistsTheocracyMentally Disabled Author:Gore Vidal
“I think that, honestly, people's censorship issues are personal but I disagree with most of those personal choices that I see others make. You know, I watch television and there's a grotesque amount of violence on almost every show that you would watch that comes on past 8:00 pm. And I think my dirty brand of humor is far less destructive to a child's mentality.” PeopleThinkingChildrenShowsChoicesWatchesIssuesViolenceTelevisionAmountHonestlyBrandsDirtyDestructiveDisagreeCensorshipMentalityGrotesquePersonal Choice Author:Seth Rogen
“There's always been an incredible amount of junk music, and junk everything. Marshall McLuhan said that a medium surrounds a previous medium, and turns the previous medium into an art form. So, what was once a junk culture, like film, television surrounded it and turned it into an art form.” ArtSaidFilmFormTurnsCultureTelevisionAmountIncrediblesMediumsSurroundJunk Author:T Bone Burnett
“People very quickly define success due to the amount of money something makes. In the end, I think everyone is searching for that experience. That's why we continue to go to the movies and watch television.” PeopleThinkingEndsWatchesTelevisionAmountDuesDefine Success Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“I hadn't been there [Comic-Con] before. It's pretty eye-opening, when you haven't been there, just with the sheer amount of fans that are there for different shows and films. It's like a big fan symposium, in a way, as well a way for film studios and television studios to really promote their product to their loyal audience base. It was an experience.” WayWellsDifferentShowsBigsEyeFilmAudienceFansHavensTelevisionProductsAmountStudiosOpeningComicLoyalSheerEye OpeningComic ConSymposiumPretty Eyes Author:Dustin Clare
“here's a huge amount of work that goes into placating a network in regular television. It's literally 70% or 80% of your workload, is showing them the material, getting their notes and presenting it to them and making sure they weigh in. It's a huge amount of work.” TelevisionMaterialsHugeAmountNotesPresentingWorkloadPlacating Author:Louis C. K.
“Now, all America sits in front of television sets and those television sets exude, I am sorry to say, a considerable amount of radioactive material. It's not huge, you know, but it's enough so that people who have made a habit of watching TV ... get the TV radiation.” PeopleKnowsMadeEnoughAmericaFrontsTelevisionMaterialsTvsHugeAmountHabitSorryRadiationI Am SorryAm SorryWatching Tv Author:L. Ron Hubbard
“Maybe if I'd gone in younger, I wouldn't have had that feeling, but I've seen an enormous amount of changes since the early-'70s in how this stuff is shot. I did the first TV movie ever shot in 18 days; before this film the normal length of shooting a TV movie was between 21 and 26 days. We shot a full-up, two-hour TV movie in 18 days with Donald Sutherland playing the lead, who had never worked on television before.” IfsFirstsTwoFeelingsFilmStuffHoursGoneTelevisionTvsAmountNormalShotsEnormousShootingLength Author:Richard Masur