“Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.” PeopleHeartTwoMomentsLastsGivenSimpleHalfStruggleCenturyTelevisionTvsBattleConversationSittingAdvantageSurfacePsychologicalMemorableInterviewsStoppingFormatPower StruggleMemorable Moments Author:David Frost
“Quite often I'll turn on the television and something like Sound of Music will be on or Victor/Victoria and I might watch a moment or two. But I don't actually sit down and say I'm going to watch one of my movies.” TwoMomentsMightTurnsSoundWatchesTelevisionDown AndTurn-onVictoriaSound Of Music Author:Julie Andrews
“Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad.” LongMomentsFightingSocialVoiceAttentionMediaCarTelevisionMessagesNewsRadioSocial MediaPocketsCyclesDesks Author:Joseph Prince
“You realize after you travel enough that there's some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter how good your cameras are, how well it's edited, there's no way the lenses could have captured the moment, and there's no way you will ever be able to write about it and do it justice.” WayWritingWellsMatterEnoughMomentsAbleRealizingJusticeTelevisionCamerasLensesCapturedEdited Author:Anthony Bourdain
“It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today's children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.” YearsBelieveChildrenStillsSometimesPlayMomentsAgeTodaySchoolGamesFantasyGenerationsChildhoodTelevisionSixFilledAncientVideoTraditionalTwelveEvidentMake Believe Book:Children Without Childhood Source: Children Without Childhood
“Every day on the set, things change. You move things around. The actors are creating the roles and bringing them to life, and bringing the moments to life, as they happen. That's the best thing about television. I think it gets misunderstood, when there's one credit that says, "Written by," because that's certainly not the way it happens, in real life.” ThinkingWayRealMomentsHappensMovingActorsRolesWrittenTelevisionCreatingCreditReal LifeBest ThingsThings ChangeMisunderstood Author:Summer Glau
“If you're ever making a television show, don't cast smart actors because they are just a pain in the ass. The moment you start to bullshit them you've lost them, so you have to either know what you're talking about or when you don't talk to them.” IfsKnowsMomentsShowsPainActorsLostTalkingTelevisionSmartCastsAssBullshitTelevision Shows Author:Ray McKinnon
“The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a simple and individual response to reality, and even a tendency to moments of thoughtful silence and absorption. All these tendencies, however, are soon destroyed by the dominant culture. The child becomes a yelling, brash, false little monster, brandishing a toy gun or dressed up like some character he has seen on television.” MayChildrenLittlesMomentsCharacterRealityCultureSpiritualityIndividualImaginationNaturalSimpleExistenceSilenceModernTelevisionGunResponseMonstersTendenciesDestroyedThoughtfulOriginalityToysConsumerismDominantInclinationYellingOverconsumptionDressed UpAbsorptionBrashDominant CultureToy Guns Author:Thomas Merton
“Television is all about sound. You'll never get a moment of silence unless there's something really extraordinary going on, on screen, visually. They never let a moment of silence pass without being filled in television because it's a very sound-driven medium.” MomentsSoundSilenceTelevisionFilledExtraordinaryDrivenScreensMediumsMoment Of SilenceFilled In Author:Charlie Hunnam
“I've been trying to figure out what moment The Lone Ranger came into our lives. We've always just known about The Lone Ranger. It's common knowledge. I don't ever remember watching the television show.” TryingMomentsShowsRememberCommonKnownOur LivesFiguresTelevisionTelevision ShowsLoneRangersCommon KnowledgeLone Ranger Author:James Badge Dale
“I mean, "The Jinx" is an amazing piece of cinema and amazing television moment, it`s rare documentarians can feel the direct impact of their work.” FeelsMeanMomentsPiecesTelevisionDirectImpactCinemaJinx Author:Joe Berlinger
“Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial.” MomentsPastLinesTelevisionConstantDenialAvoidingConfrontationCrossingsEscapingJacking Off Book:Choke: A Novel Source: Choke: A Novel
“I'm often asked, "What is your favorite moment during the 30 years you hosted [The Tonight Show]?" I really don't have just one. The times I enjoyed the most were the spontaneous, unplanned segments that just happened, like Ed Ames' infamous "Tomahawk Toss" that produced one of the longest laughs in television history. When these lucky moments happen, you just go with them and enjoy the experience and high of the moment.” YearsMomentsShowsHappensEnjoyLaughingHappenedTelevisionLuckyEnjoyedJust OneTonightSpontaneousTossYour FavoriteInfamous Author:Johnny Carson
“I don't think I've entirely had that moment yet! There's still so much more to be done. Professionally I am so grateful to step out into the television world with the remarkable opportunity of being on Empire.” ThinkingWorldStillsDoneMomentsOpportunityStepsTelevisionGratefulEmpiresRemarkableThat MomentSo Grateful Author:Grace Gealey
“Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.” SelfMomentsRunningAttentionTelevisionDenialSmokingRunning AwayCrapConfrontationWatching TelevisionSelf MedicatingJacking Off Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Opera on television in Europe is very important. If you think about it in the broadest sense: a lot of the dramas made in India with music are practically operas. They're not sung but they have a very big appeal. I don't know why American television people are so stupid but at the moment, they just seem to have some sort of a block. They just do what they do and they do it for a certain number of years. Then it wears out and they try something else. It's just a matter of time I think.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsTryingYearsMadeImportantMatterMomentsBigsSeemsCertainNumbersStupidTelevisionDramaEuropeIndiaBlockAppealsOperaMatter Of TimeAmerican Television Author:Robert Ashley
“I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so raw and funny, and I think we're in the next important moment of television, where it's really telling the epic of the culture like Charles Dickens was doing in the 19th century with his serialized novels.” ThinkingWritingImportantMomentsFilmCultureNextNovelCenturyTelevisionPoetTvsGrewGrew UpSupposed To BeEpic19th CenturyDickensImportant Moments Author:Eileen Myles
“If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanMomentsTodayNaturalCareersTelevisionSuspectsCrossroadsNatural HistoryConveyingUp To DateSomewhere Out There Author:David Attenborough
“I love to go back and write and direct another film one day, but that's on the backburner for now because I'm involved with so much television at the moment.” WritingMomentsFilmTelevisionInvolvedOne DayDirect Author:Kevin D. Williamson
“Rupert Murdoch gave up his Australian citizenship in order to buy television stations in the United States, which is symptomatic of the way Murdoch operates. Everything is for sale, including his birthright. The Mirror is not read by soccer hooligans. It's read by ordinary people of this country. That comment is simply patronizing. But to be criticized by the Moonies and Murdoch in one breath is really just a fine moment for me.” PeopleWayCountryStatesMomentsOrderUnitedUnited StatesTelevisionFineOrdinaryBreathsMirrorsIncludingSoccerStationsCommentCitizenshipOrdinary PeopleAustralianGave UpBirthrightPatronizing Author:John Pilger
“Writing for television is a great job. And it's a job. Most people watch TV and have a comment about one or two moments of an episode - whether they love it or hate it or something in between. To come up with every moment of an entire season of a TV shows is heavy lifting.” PeopleWritingTwoMomentsShowsJobsHateWatchesTelevisionTvsSeasonsCome UpHeavyCommentEpisodesTv ShowsLiftingGreat JobHeavy Lifting Author:Steven C. Harper
“The only thing that would deter me at the moment would be the idea of doing one thing for a very long time. There is no doubt in my mind that television is an incredibly auspicious medium right now. It's where a lot of the serious acting is taking place.” MindLongIdeasMomentsWould BeActingDoubtOne ThingTelevisionSeriousRight NowLong TimeMediumsNo Doubt Author:Simon Pegg
“There are some incredible television shows. It seems a sort of succumbed place to be. At the moment, I'm quite happy sort of flitting from place-to-place. I wouldn't want to relocate from where I am right now in terms of where I live.” WantMomentsShowsSeemsTermTelevisionRight NowIncrediblesTelevision Shows Author:Simon Pegg
“There are so many other people involved in the making of a play or a television series or whatever... even if you're a novelist there's so much in just the marketing of a book, or even the time... the zeitgeist, the moment at which it comes out. There's a lot you can't control.” PeopleIfsBookPlayMomentsTelevisionInvolvedSeriesMarketingNovelistsZeitgeist Author:Peter Morgan