“After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become 'A Grand Day Out.” SchoolFilmStudyTelevisionDegreesLondonPostsGraduatesFilm And TelevisionEmbarkingSheffield Author:Nick Park
“Wanting to be on television is a mental illness. Wanting to be president of the United States, wanting to be an actor - these are degrees of the same mental illness. If you need to be approved of simultaneously by more people than are in this room now, there's a problem.” PeopleIfsNeedsStatesProblemActorsPresidentUnitedRoomsUnited StatesTelevisionDegreesIllnessMental IllnessApproved Author:Keith Olbermann
“TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV image, that the actor must achieve a great degree of spontaneous casualness that would be irrelevant in movie and lost on the stage. For the audience participates in the inner life of the TV actor as fully as in the outer life of the movie star. Technically, TV tends to be a close-up medium. The close-up that in the movie is used for shock is, on TV, a quite casual thing.” Would BeUsedActorsLostStarsActingAudienceAchieveStageTelevisionTvsDegreesMediumsIntimateShockPeculiarSpontaneousViewersIrrelevantMovie StarClosingInvolvementCasualInner LifeCompletion Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.” FeelsLooksFeltTelevisionDegreesExpectationsRaisesSeparationClever Author:Alan Thicke
“Miles and I had been looking to do a martial arts show for some time. Our first two movies that we wrote were "Lethal Weapon 4" and "Shanghai Noon" with Jackie Chan. Then we sort of got pulled into the superhero world, but then you look around at what's not on television and there wasn't really a martial arts shows. There are shows that do martial arts to a degree, but there's not a martial arts show.” WorldFirstsLooksArtTwoShowsTelevisionDegreesWeaponsMilesMartial ArtsSuperheroNoonJackieShanghaiLethal Weapon Author:Alfred Gough
“I love my dad. He used to walk around the whole neighborhood and collect old furniture and fix it, like MacGyver with duct tape. One time, he brought a television home. I said, 'Damn, that TV has 500 channels.' When I got older, it didn't have 500 channels - it was a knob from the oven. My favorite channel was 300 degrees.” SaidWholeHomeUsedWalksTelevisionTvsDadDegreesMy DadMy FavoriteDamnNeighborhoodOne TimeTapeFurnitureOvensKnobsDuct TapeLove My DadI Love My DadMacgyver Author:Felipe Esparza
“Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.” WantComedyTelevisionDramaDegreesRelevantTelevision Drama Author:John Ridley