“See, I don't watch reality television anymore. I watched a little bit of it for awhile, but I found it turned my soul into a black sludge, and I just did not find it healthy or good for me at all, because I would watch it and be disgusted, disgusted.” LittlesSoulRealityFoundBitsBlackWatchesTelevisionHealthyLittle BitMy SoulDisgustedReality Television Author:Martha Plimpton
“It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.” KindLittlesTodayFilmUsedActorsBitsLinesHappenedOne ThingStageTelevisionTvsLittle BitUsed To BeCrossoverMovie ActorsFilm ActorsStage Actors Author:Aaron Tveit
“I like that totally mixed up kind of eclectic group of personal props and bits of costume and I think the fun of doing that is where I was very lucky with Doctor Who.” ThinkingKindFunBitsGroupsTelevisionLuckyDoctorsCostumesDoctor WhoPropsEclecticEclectic Style Author:Lalla Ward
“I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.” StillsBitsTelevisionTvsGrewGrew UpMediums Author:Kenneth Lonergan
“I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.” WritingBitsTelevisionSceneScriptsLive ByChocolateMottoSlimMy MottoTartsFunny Chocolate Author:Dawn French
“At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story.” IdeasStoriesCertainBitsSawsTelevisionParticularNewsTablesNewspapersEncountersBreakfastCommentArticlesRecallsRecognise Author:Mark Z. Danielewski
“Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent. Obviously there are more specific ones that get a little bit tricky. Same with American stuff. But because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.” WellsLittlesWholeProblemFormCultureStuffBitsCan DoTelevisionListeningLittle BitVariousAustraliaAccentsNo ProblemAmerican CultureTrickyWhole Family Author:Guy Pearce
“Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'” SometimesAsksGamesBitsWatchesTelevisionFootballManagersSoccerBoredIntensityChairmanContinental Author:Arsene Wenger
“I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated. And there's so much more responsibility because the medium is very much a director's medium. Television is much more of a producer's writer's medium so a lot of the time when you're directing a television show they have a color palette on set or a visual style and dynamic that's already been predetermined and you just kind of have to follow the rules.” KindShowsBitsResponsibilityStyleTelevisionColorDirectorsComplicatedMediumsProducersVisualsTelevision ShowsPalettePredetermined Author:Jason Bateman
“Auditioning for television shows - to find a guy who has a lot of experience as a laborer is a bit of an anomaly. We do exist. I know several other actors who have made their living, instead of a waitress job, framing houses or blacktopping roads.” KnowsMadeShowsJobsGuyActorsHouseBitsTelevisionTelevision ShowsWaitressLaborersAnomaliesFraming Author:Nick Offerman
“The Cheers writers were the finest in television. But I felt like I was repeating myself; it bothered me a little bit. And I was getting movie offers, which made people think, "Oh, she's so snooty. She thinks she's going to do movies."” PeopleThinkingLittlesMadeFeltBitsTelevisionOffersLittle BitCheerFinestBothered Author:Shelley Long
“You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come to see you, and so they kind of know what they're in for. In television, you are sort of sneaking into people's homes. So, I think you can be a little bit darker on stage.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindLittlesHomeBitsActingStageTelevisionLittle BitTheater Author:Tina Fey
“Television can become a bit of a treadmill for directors. You come in, nobody knows you, the actors are already doing what they're doing, and you're just one of a number of directors who comes in.” KnowsActorsBitsNumbersTelevisionDirectorsJust OneNobody KnowsTreadmills Author:Michael J. Bassett
“Television is where you earn regular money so you can plan a little bit but even then only when you have a regular gig. If you're just doing the odd appearance, you don't know if it will carry on.” IfsKnowsLittlesBitsPlansTelevisionLittle BitAppearanceOddGigs Author:Bill Bailey
“Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.” DifferentMovingBitsTelevisionBecomingCollages Book:Hockney on photography: conversations with Paul Joyce Source: Hockney on photography: conversations with Paul Joyce
“The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice. If people don't show that weekend, you're doomed. TV allows you to percolate a little bit, and it gives you a chance for people to find it.” PeopleIfsGivingYearsLittlesShowsBitsCan DoChanceTelevisionTvsLittle BitMediumsWeekendDoomedYou Can Do ItDiceSuitors Author:Bruce Campbell
“Evil Dead" needs a very specific home. Movies are mostly unrated, but on television who the heck was doing that stuff? And now the doors opened a little bit with companies like Starz. They were the only suitor that was going to let us have content that was unrestricted.” NeedsLittlesHomeEvilStuffBitsCompanyDoorsTelevisionLittle BitSuitorsEvil Dead Author:Bruce Campbell
“There are many things clogging the television waves. You've got to fight for every bit of television households you can get.” FightingBitsTelevisionWaveHouseholdClogging Author:Kevin Sorbo
“Televisison is like a factory line. You need discipline and focus. You have to hit your mark and know your lines. It's not that I don't know my lines when I do a film, but the pace of discovery is always a little bit more relaxed and nurturing and almost babying, in a way. Television toughens you up, and I like that, but I don't want it to toughen me up too much.” KnowsWayWantNeedsLittlesFilmBitsLinesToo MuchFocusTelevisionDisciplineLittle BitDiscoveryMarkPaceFactoriesRelaxedNurturing Author:Shannyn Sossamon
“Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.” BitsTelevisionDrugNevertheless Author:Terence McKenna
“When movie people go over into television, it's a little bit of a shock. It's much faster-paced. Everything is really last-minute. You won't know your schedule for the next episode until the last minute.” PeopleKnowsLittlesLastsNextBitsMinutesTelevisionLittle BitFasterShockEpisodesSchedulesLast Minute Author:Charisma Carpenter
“I think that there's no doubt that to work in film is a bit more of a creative journey. It's not that I don't put the same time or heart into something that's on television.” ThinkingHeartFilmBitsCreativeDoubtJourneyTelevisionNo Doubt Author:William Fichtner
“When I'm through with the Lee Greenwood Theatre, I won't do anything else in entertainment. Maybe I'll become an ambassador for the United States maybe I'll get into television, some news anchoring or something in a major city. Certainly the visibility would interest me a little bit. But someplace that would allow me to sit still certainly.” LittlesStillsStatesBitsInterestUnitedCitiesUnited StatesTelevisionMajorsLittle BitNewsEntertainmentTheatreAmbassadorsVisibility Author:Lee Greenwood
“Essentially, the scripts are not that different. Let's say, in literary terms, it's the difference between writing horizontally and writing vertically. In live television, you wrote much more vertically. You had to probe people because you didn't have money or sets or any of the physical dimensions that film will allow you. So you generally probed people a little bit more. Film writing is much more horizontal. You can insert anything you want: meadows, battlefields, the Taj Mahal, a cast of thousands. But essentially, writing a story is writing a story.” PeopleWantWritingLittlesDifferentStoriesFilmBitsTermDifferencesTelevisionLittle BitScriptsCastsDimensionsWant MeBattlefieldsMeadowsYou Want MeInsertHorizontalTaj MahalMahalLive TelevisionFilm WritingLiterary Terms Author:Rod Serling
“If I did a TV show, it would have to be in North London because I'm a bit of a homebody, and my work takes me away from home enough. But yeah absolutely. Television has never been more exciting than it is now.” IfsEnoughShowsHomeBitsTelevisionTvsExcitingYeahLondonTake MeTv ShowsAway From HomeHomebodiesTake Me Away Author:Simon Pegg