“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
“Two years ago I hadn't even thought of the Woman in White, and I was doing a television show and I said I hadn't found a story and the next day somebody rang me and said have you ever thought of the Woman in White.” YearsSaidTwoStoriesShowsNextFoundWhiteTelevisionYears AgoTwo YearsNext DayTelevision ShowsTwo Years Ago Author:Andrew Lloyd Webber
“There's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him. He's kind of a stranger to our industry, to this medium. You have to go back to the 1930s to find a movie that's just about Abraham Lincoln. I just found that my fascination with Lincoln, which started as a child, got to the point where after reading so much about him I thought there was a chance to tell a segment of his life to to moviegoers.” KindChildrenMadeReadingFoundChanceWrittenTelevisionIndustryStrangerMediumsFascinationAbraham1930sPortraying Author:Steven Spielberg
“I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. I found it incredibly difficult, doing that kind of sales work. I would have thought I'd be good at it, but I wasn't. It's so easy in acting. Everything falls into place when they write that you're a salesman. People just say yes, and then it's great.” PeopleWritingKindFallFoundEasyDifficultActingDoorsTelevisionCollegeBe GoodSellingCablesSalesmanFall Into PlaceSubscriptionEverything Falls Into Place Author:Greg Kinnear
“As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case. After I gave up television, I found I could carry longer and longer stories or ideas in my head and put them together until I was carrying an entire short story. That's pretty much when I started writing.” IfsWritingChildrenIdeasStoriesTogetherTurnsFoundCasesTelevisionLuckyJokesCleanRadioNarrativeIf I CouldShort StoryWipeTurn-onGave UpSlate Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I never intended to be a historian of religion. My aim was to become a professor of English Literature in a university, but I had a series of absolute career disasters and found myself making television programs about the nature of religion and about Christian history and started to discover about other religious traditions, and that was an absolute eye-opener for me.” EyeChristianFoundLiteratureReligiousCareersTelevisionProgramTraditionAbsolutesAimSeriesUniversityDisasterProfessorsHistorianEnglish LiteratureReligious Traditions Author:Karen Armstrong
“I've found the thing in life that I adore, which is working in science television. It's just a big adventure, really.” BigsFoundTelevisionAdventureThings In LifeAdore Author:Dallas Campbell
“If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films. I remember being a teenager, and people getting out like Halloween [1978] or Saw [2004], and watching them, and I'd kind of just stare at the television logo and blur my eyes and pretend I was watching but I wasn't because I just found that I would take the movie home with me. I can scare myself like a pro.” PeopleIfsKindI CanHomeEyeRememberFilmFoundSawsFansHonestTelevisionHugeScaryTeenagerStaringScareHalloweenBlurLogosBeing A Teenager Author:Imogen Poots
“I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct.” WantedFoundTelevisionDirectIndependentFilmmaker Author:Lynn Shelton
“Scientists who study brain-wave activity found that the longer one watches television, the more likely the brain will slip into "alpha" level: a slow, steady brain-wave pattern in which the mind is in its most receptive mode. It is noncoggnitive mode; i.e., information can be placed into the mind directly, without viewer participation.” MindFoundLevelsBrainWatchesStudyInformationTelevisionActivityScientistWavePatternsSteadySlipsParticipationViewersReceptiveAlphas Author:Jerry Mander
“I was in Britain that year [1963] and some music publishing people in Denmark Street in London suggested me to the BBC. So I found myself in front of a British television show, which was a nice surprise.” PeopleYearsShowsFoundNiceStreetsFrontsTelevisionSurpriseBritishLondonBritainPublishingTelevision ShowsDenmarkBritish Television Author:Gordon Lightfoot
“Even the most loyal viewers of a show would only watch one out of three episodes. As someone who made television, I always found that hard to believe because you want to believe people who love your show are watching every episode, but statistically it was true that people who considered themselves the most loyal viewers were only watching one out of three.” PeopleWantBelieveMadeHardShowsThreeFoundWatchesLove YouTelevisionLoyalEpisodesViewersHard To Believe Author:Tim Kring