“Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.” KnowsPlayCharacterFallEasyKnow HowFiveTelevisionGoes OnWalkingSceneSeasonsAssumingBoringTricky Author:John Slattery
“It's television. The reality of it is, if you go on the boards and people are saying, "I saw that coming," or "This is lame," or "I can't believe they're doing this again..." Having been one of those people myself, I know better, and try to avoid it.” PeopleIfsKnowsTryingBelieveI CanRealitySawsTelevisionGoes OnBoardsLame Author:Damon Lindelof
“Obviously, comedy, or art in general, or television, or whatever you want to call it's all subjective. But I do like to know what people are thinking. I don't know how long I'll keep doing that. As it goes on and on, I might become more fearful of it. For the time being, I'm not opposed to reading what people write.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantWritingLongArtMightReadingKnow HowComedyTelevisionGoes OnFearfulSubjective Author:Charlie Day
“When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming up like I was, or you were an older actor whose career was over and you had to go on television.” IfsYoungActorsCareersTelevisionGoes On80sYoung Actors Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“When television is good, nothing - not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers - nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there for a day without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.” I CanBookEyeLossAirFrontsTelevisionGoes OnTheaterProfitNewspapersMagazinesStationsInvitesSheetsRatingWastelandProfit And LossSigning Off Author:Newton N. Minow
“If God dislikes gays so much, how come he picked Michelangelo, a known homosexual, to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling while assigning Anita Bryant to go on television and push orange juice?” IfsKnownTelevisionGoes OnGayPaintDislikeHomosexualOrangeJuiceCeilingsChapelOrange JuiceSistine Chapel Author:Mike Royko
“People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching television, movies. They are used to getting things through the eye and the ear. In a small way, literature goes on being written, but few people like it. Once it's bureaucratized by the schoolteachers, the game's up.” PeopleWayBookEyeUsedReadingLiteratureGamesWrittenTelevisionGoes OnEarsEducatedUsed To BeReading BooksThrough The EyesWatching Television Author:Gore Vidal
“I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.” WritingDoneTelevisionGoes OnSubstitutes Author:Gore Vidal
“It's not Comic Con any more. It's this huge marketplace for the motion picture and television industry. And the toy manufacturer's and the game people. One of the problems with International Comic Con is that tickets go on sale for the next year's event and the place is full of thousands and thousands of kids who have scraped together every dime to get admittance because they want to get all the freebies.” PeopleWantYearsProblemKidsTogetherNextGamesEventsTelevisionHugeGoes OnIndustryInternationalComicToysTicketsMarketplaceNext YearDimesMotion PicturesComic ConAdmittanceTelevision Industry Author:Mike Royer
“I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.” GivenQualityHavensTelevisionGoes OnScriptsNever Say Never Author:Nicolas Cage
“The scientists who are working 80 hours a week trying to do their science are up against PR guys who know how to spin things and how to create doubt. Creating doubt around tobacco for fifty years when they absolutely knew it caused cancer, that was a real talent. But meanwhile, the scientists, they're not there to go on television. Their brains don't work like that.” KnowsTryingYearsRealGuyHoursBrainKnow HowDoubtWeekTalentTelevisionGoes OnCreatingScientistCancerFiftyTobaccoReal Talent Author:Robert Kenner
“Television is very much like the motion picture; you need high-end product that will first go on broadcast or cable and eventually on the Internet, and then the lifespan of this content being distributed worldwide.” NeedsFirstsEndsTelevisionProductsGoes OnInternetCablesMotion Pictures Author:Michael Eisner
“I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television.” WonderTelevisionGoes OnMachinesStimulusDope Author:James Purdy
“Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip. They don't even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue.” WorldWarFormTelevisionGoes OnWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IAvenuesHeroinMadisonLetting You GoMadison Avenue Author:Terence McKenna
“I would really like to focus on directing features, and then eventually take that skill set back to television. On features, you have more control. On television, the producers are the creative forces behind it. Directors come and go on television.” ForceBehindsCreativeFocusTelevisionGoes OnDirectorsSkillsProducersFeaturesComes And Goes Author:Eric Balfour
“They [movies] don't really have the cultural impact - other than "Star Wars," of course - that they used to because television is something that week to week people invite into their homes. It's a relationship that in success can go on six, seven, eight years. I think certainly in the early days, you definitely want that engagement.” PeopleThinkingWantYearsWarHomeUsedCoursesStarsWeekTelevisionGoes OnSixImpactSevenEightEngagementInvites Author:Alfred Gough