“I think some of the most creative work is coming out of television. I felt it's very immediate and I like that. It's really fast. It's got a pace to it, and that's why I think everybody in my field wants to just do good material.” ThinkingWantFeltCreativeFieldsTelevisionMaterialsPaceComing OutCreative Work Author:Charlize Theron
“I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny.” WritingPersonsFeltTeachTelevisionEasier Author:Roseanne Barr
“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
“I wanted to describe the world at the same time, through image, express what I felt. It was the time of the great documentary filmmakers: Richard Leacock, Joris Ivens. Today, television has put an end to this type of filmmaking.” WorldEndsTodayWantedFeltTelevisionTypeFilmmakerFilmmakingDocumentaries Author:Krzysztof Kieslowski
“I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.” IfsKnowsWayFeelsWholeCharacterShowsRememberFeltGrowing UpGrowingTelevisionRacismPrejudiceMy WayAsianCharlieTelevision Shows Author:David Henry Hwang
“I went to West Texas and started writing a cycle of Americana poems after the space conjured images that, as a child, I only saw on television-John Wayne, cowboys, borderlines. But suddenly, I felt close to these once-foreign imageries and wondered how I'd changed. Each evening brought the darkest skies in the country, and I understood the expansiveness of our inner selves. Ultimately nothing divides us except the worlds and words we allow.” WorldWritingChildrenSelfCountryFeltSpaceSawsSkyChangedTelevisionUnderstoodWestEveningCyclesTexasDividesCowboyImageryInner SelfWayneBorderlineAmericanaExpansivenessWest Texas Author:Nathalie Handal
“The first time I watched television I felt exactly as if something important had taken an elevator ride up to my head and gotten off and turned on the light in my mind. I knew that I was going to do something in television. It was in my cards. I remember feeling the warm relief of knowing where my future was.” IfsMindFirstsImportantFeelingsLightRememberFeltKnowingTakenTelevisionFirst TimeWarmCardsReliefMy FutureElevators Book:A Big Life in Advertising Source: A Big Life in Advertising
“Television and movies just take so long. If you pitch a show or develop a project, it can be a year before your show even gets on the air, if it gets picked up. Just the concept of "I had this idea" and within a week it was in the world, that was a part of why it felt weirdly empowering as a performer.” IfsWorldYearsLongIdeasShowsFeltAirWeekTelevisionProjectsConceptsEmpoweringPerformers Author:Chris Hardwick
“I'm still learning. It's all a learning curve. Every time you sit down, with any given episode of any given show, it is a learning curve. You're learning something new about how to tell a story. But then, I've felt that way about everything I've ever done - television, features or whatever. Directing or writing, it always feels like the first day of school to me.” WayFeelsWritingFirstsStillsDoneStoriesShowsSchoolGivenFeltTelevisionFeaturesSomething NewEpisodesCurvesLearning CurveFirst Day Of SchoolLearning Something New Author:Frank Darabont
“When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.” NeedsKindChildrenSaidShowsFeltQualityTelevisionThese DaysSatProgrammingTelevision ShowsMuppetMuppet Show Author:Jim Henson
“I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I felt that this player is playing with a style similar to mine, and she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two...his compactness, technique, stroke production - it all seemed to gel!” LooksSaidTwoPlayFeltSawsWifePlayerStyleTelevisionMinesProductionsMy WifeTechniqueStrokesCricketSimilarityCricketersPlaying CricketCricket Funny Author:Donald Bradman
“I also have always felt that television has a huge potential for the kinds of audiences that some films would never dream or ever be able to have. So that potential is very exciting to me.” KindDreamAbleFilmFeltAudienceTelevisionHugeExciting Author:Glenn Close
“I guess it really didn't even dawn on me that you could be a rock critic as a job until I was maybe almost out of college. I knew criticism existed. I read Rolling Stone and Spin. Siskel and Ebert were on television. But I had absolutely no idea how to get that kind of life. And moreover, it didn't interest me that much. I just sort of read normal books growing up. I wasn't that media-conscious. I felt like the one thing I was able to do was to listen to a record and decide whether I liked it.” KindBookIdeasAbleJobsFeltInterestGrowing UpRecordsGrowingOne ThingRocksMediaTelevisionCollegeNormalConsciousStonesCriticismCriticsNo IdeaDawnRollingRolling Stones Author:Chuck Klosterman
“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
“I know how I felt when I saw things like 'Fame' on television when I was growing up and how that was an exceptional magnet for me to want to explore the theater. I can only assume that 'Smash' is doing that for anyone who is halfway interested in theater already.” KnowsWantI CanFeltKnow HowGrowing UpSawsGrowingTelevisionFameTheaterAssumingExceptionalHalfwayMagnet Author:Brian d'Arcy James
“I can't presume to speak for the others, but I never felt anything negative from anyone when I was onstage with Television. When I played rhythm behind Lloyd, the only thing that concerned me was to push him as hard as I could so that he'd go beyond what he was capable of and come up with something new, and vice versa. That's the only thing that mattered.” I CanHardSpeakFeltBehindsTelevisionCapableConcernedNegativeCome UpVicesRhythmSomething NewVice Versa Author:Tom Verlaine
“I recently realized that Television has influenced a lot of English bands. Echo and the Bunnymen, U2, Teardrop Explodes - it's obvious what they've listened to and what they're going for. When I was sixteen I listened to Yardbirds records and thought, "God, this is great." It's gratifying to think that people listened to Television albums and felt the same.” PeopleThinkingFeltRecordsTelevisionBandAlbumsObviousEchoesSixteenTeardrop Author:Tom Verlaine
“I've always felt kind of safe on stage, protected. I've talked to other performers about this and they feel the same things, particularly in the live arena. I never get nervous going on stage to do a play. Doing film or television I'll have more butterflies.” FeelsKindPlayFilmFeltStageTelevisionSafeNervousPerformersButterflyProtectedArena Author:Cillian Murphy
“People say, "Well, you went on television, it enlarged your readership." It did not at all, not at all. I might as well tell you, I lost some readership, because the profound audience felt somehow bothered by my too easy manner.” PeopleWellsMightLostFeltEasyAudienceTelevisionProfoundBotheredReadership Author:Jerzy Kosinski
“You used to have to make a choice. Is it a serialized television show, or is it a stand-alone or procedural? We were wildly influenced by The X-Files. Even when we created Fringe, it was the same thing. It's the gold standard of all gold standards, in genre television, and it was so wonderful because you felt so much for those characters.” CharacterShowsUsedChoicesFeltWonderfulTelevisionStandardsGoldGenreFilesFringeTelevision ShowsStand AloneX FilesGold Standard Author:Alex Kurtzman
“It felt really nice to not have anybody talking about numbers, and no one is talking about ratings. From my experience, it felt like there was one person running the ship and it felt like there was space for Jenji to be at the helm. That's not what I've experienced in television before. It felt more akin to an interesting movie, where there were producers who were really excited by the work and wanted to make space for the director's vision to be sort of shared with an audience. It felt more cohesive.” PersonsRunningWantedFeltSpaceInterestingNumbersTalkingVisionAudienceNiceTelevisionDirectorsExcitedShipsProducersReally NiceRatingHelm Author:Taylor Schilling
“I've done a lot of television in life, and I don't remember the last time that I felt so consistently happy [working with Jenji Kohan].” DoneLastsRememberFeltTelevisionConsistentlyLast Time Author:Kate Mulgrew
“Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.” WayCountryYoungFeltAudienceInfluenceTelevisionHugeAppealsMtvMoguls Book:Pride: the Charley Pride story Source: Pride: the Charley Pride story
“I have had a few rough patches in my life, but these last few years have been among the roughest. A few years ago, I left my job as host of the television show Extra. Our parting of ways was completely amicable; they were amazing to me. I had spent over a quarter of my life at that job, and without it, I felt like I had lost my compass. People didn't know how to introduce me anymore, because in L.A., you are your job.” PeopleKnowsWayYearsHas BeensShowsJobsLastsLostLeftFeltKnow HowTelevisionYears AgoExtrasRoughHostQuartersIntroducingCompassPatchesPartingTelevision ShowsRough Patches Author:Dayna Devon