“I work from a deep sense of insecurity. I have the belief, and I can't shake it, that there are endless reasons to turn the channel. There are hundreds of channels and entirely other things to do besides TV. And if you make a bad television show there's no reason for the audience to come back the following week.” IfsI CanReasonShowsTurnsBeliefAudienceWeekTelevisionTvsFollowingEndlessThings To DoShakesInsecurityNo ReasonTelevision Shows Author:Chuck Lorre
“We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.” IfsKnowsYearsWellsEnoughScienceNextRoomsKnowledgePathGreaterTelevisionDevelopmentConversationAchievementWindowFollowingFiftyOwnersSurprisingTelephonesRapidsWireless Author:Winston Churchill
“In fact, a very similar phrase was invented to account for the sudden transition of wood, metal, plastic and concrete into an explosive condition, which was "nonlinear, catastrophic structural exasperation," or to put it another way--as a junior cabinet minister did on television the following night in a phrase which was to haunt the rest of his career--the check-in desk had just got "fundamentally fed up with being where it was.” WayFactsNightCareersConditionsTelevisionAccountsFollowingWoodsChecksMinistersPhrasesFedsTransitionMetalsConcretePlasticDesksAnother WayJuniorsCabinetsExplosivesFed UpExasperationNonlinear Author:Douglas Adams
“My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.” MindFirstsCreativeTelevisionFollowingIntroductionCreative Mind Author:Madchen Amick
“For those of you that have been following Ultimate Spider-Man, you know how we took that show and brought it to the next level of what Marvel Television is doing. And Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. was the next level of what we wanted to get to.” KnowsMenHas BeensShowsWantedNextLevelsKnow HowTelevisionUltimateFollowingAgentsSpidersNext LevelSpider Man Author:Jeph Loeb
“The way television works is that directors come in and out, and they're not there all the time, following every character through every scene. They're vagabonds who go from one show to another.” WayCharacterShowsTelevisionSceneDirectorsFollowingVagabonds Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino