“We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves. Our idea of relaxing is all too often to plop down in front of the television set and let its pandering idiocy liquefy our brains. Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.” NeedsMindIdeasMotivationalRunningProcessBrainCarFrontsTelevisionTaughtBatteriesDiversionIdiocyThought Process Author:Bill Watterson
“Sometimes I think some of my fellow novelists who have not worked in television and film are very naive about this process. They get an offer and there's the dump truck full of money and they sign it, they cash the check and then they're not involved in the series. They may get invited to the premiere and they come out of the premiere looking like all of their children had just been gassed, with a stunned look on their face because everything has been changed.” ThinkingLooksMayChildrenHas BeensSometimesFilmFacesProcessChangedTelevisionInvolvedOffersFellowsSeriesChecksNovelistsCashInvitedNaiveTruckDumpStunnedPremieres Author:George R. R. Martin
“In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.” WritingHas BeensMadeProcessWrittenHonestyTelevisionSatisfying Author:Vince Gilligan
“When I finished the series, I wasn't going to do television again. I never wanted to do television to begin with, and I was so exhausted by the process that I was wary of being in front of the camera again.” WantedProcessFrontsTelevisionCamerasSeriesFinishedExhausted Author:Gillian Anderson
“Not all television scripts are created equal. And the process is ridiculous. They send you a script and want you in the next morning. That's not how acting works. You can do anything to me as an actor; I'm a very resilient guy. Just don't rush me. If you ask me to do it immediately with no time to prepare, I know you have contempt for actors.” IfsKnowsWantGuyNextActorsAsksProcessCan DoActingMorningTelevisionEqualScriptsRidiculousAsk MeContemptResilient Author:Holt McCallany
“In the first week of the showings of the The Matrix Revolutions, The Godfather and The Godfather Part II played on cable television. I started watching, and I was held; I wanted to go through the process again. Can anyone credit that 30 years from now there will be an audience for the three parts of The Matrix, anywhere? Even if Keanu Reeves is our president by then?” IfsYearsFirstsWantedFilmThreeProcessPresidentAudienceWeekTelevisionRevolutionHollywoodCreditCables Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“I think in the world we live in where television is the principal source of information for most people, it really affects the balance of the democratic process. The fairness of the democratic process.” PeopleThinkingWorldProcessInformationTelevisionSourceBalanceDemocraticFairnessPrincipalDemocratic Process Author:Alexander Stille
“I don't think people have fully processed how deeply television has changed the political process in our own world. Political parties have become vestiges of what they were and individuals with large amounts of money can leapfrog over that process, which can have a positive mediating effect. And so I think there are things to worry about.” PeopleThinkingWorldPoliticalIndividualProcessPartyWorryEffectsChangedTelevisionAmountPolitical Parties Author:Alexander Stille
“Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads.” ThinkingPoliticsSpeakProcessTermTelevisionSpeechMessagesNewsAppearanceDebateNarrativeIntimateCandidatesVisualsAdsAccustomedTransforming Book:Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy Source: Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy
“You can just go to a magic shop or magic builder and buy what most magicians do, but that's not what I'm about. With 'Mindfreak' on television and 'Believe' live, I want to bring things that people have never seen before. That process is very difficult. It's very challenging, and you never know how long it's going to take - months or years.” PeopleKnowsWantYearsBelieveLongProcessDifficultChallengesKnow HowMagicTelevisionMonthsShopsMagicianBuilder Author:Criss Angel
“The predominant difference between television and film is the pace to which you work, but the development of the character or the process for playing the character isn't necessarily different.” DifferentCharacterFilmProcessDifferencesTelevisionDevelopmentPace Author:Elijah Wood
“It is hard to think of conversion as a blinding light on the road to Damascus, or as a highly spiritual or intellectual process, when the light comes from a flickering television; the voice of the deity is Bishop Sheen and you have drilled your father on his catechism answers...I was troubled at a young age by the idea that pouring water over someone's head could change both his relationship to God.” ThinkingIdeasHardLightAgeSpiritualYoungReligionFatherProcessWomenVoiceWaterAnswersTelevisionIntellectualConversionYoung AgeDeitiesBishopsPouringCatechismBlinding Light Author:Susan Jacoby
“I've actually done more [music for] films than television. I love the process of writing for a film. I love that you are creating this suite of music for a film, that's all tied together sonically and thematically and hopefully people associate with the film. They all are meaningful to me in different ways.” PeopleWayWritingDifferentDoneTogetherFilmProcessTelevisionCreatingMeaningfulHopefullyDifferent WaysTiedAssociates Author:Jeff Cardoni
“Rather than simply interrupting a television show with a commercial or barging into the consumer’s life with an unannounced phone call or letter, tomorrow’s marketer will first try to gain the consumer’s consent to participate in the selling process.” TryingFirstsShowsProcessTelevisionTomorrowGainsLettersPhonesSellingConsumersConsentPhone CallsTelevision ShowsMarketersInterrupting Author:Seth
“And when you're with a great crew like we had, it becomes a thrilling, again, collaboration, which is to me one of the great aspects of the process that you go through. I find myself at this point in my career, getting potentially, incredibly bored if I stand around a lot, so that's why I really like the pace of television.” IfsProcessCareersTelevisionAspectBoredCollaborationPaceCrewThrilling Author:Glenn Close
“Television viewership has been declining for a number of years. The internet has been blamed. Everything has been blamed. Except for what I think the problem is: that the networks own the shows, and they completely think that they make them. They don't any longer let the people who make shows just make them. The networks have notes about everything. They are intimately involved in every aspect of the process. And I think it's hurt the process.” PeopleThinkingYearsHas BeensShowsProblemProcessHurtNumbersTelevisionInternetInvolvedAspectNotes Author:Edward Allen Bernero
“I'm used to something where you have to create an entire world, and I do like that process. I like getting the audience to believe that outside of the frame of your television set, there's a whole real world that exists, that is different from your day-to-day reality.” WorldBelieveDifferentRealWholeRealityUsedProcessAudienceTelevisionReal WorldDay To Day Author:Ronald D. Moore
“I think there's a lot of really good programming on television. What I've noticed, through the years of being a professional writer, is the watering down process of story. You have to market to the masses and not offend anybody.” ThinkingYearsStoriesProcessTelevisionMassProgrammingThrough The Years Author:Lauren Iungerich
“Sometimes when you have an abundance of time and money, it's less conducive to the creative process. I like the urgency of the television schedule and the television price point. It's fluid. You figure it out on the day, and I love the challenge of problem-solving.” SometimesProblemProcessChallengesCreativeFiguresTelevisionAbundanceCreative ProcessProblem SolvingSchedulesFluidUrgencyTime And Money Author:Joseph McGinty Nichol
“I like to multitask. I love the process of the storytelling in television. I love the serial. Even my stab at doing a procedural show was still very much serialized. I'm such a serialized storyteller. I feel like the story never ends. I want it to go and go and go. However, with cable and streaming now it's endless. You can do anything.” WantFeelsStillsEndsStoriesShowsProcessCan DoTelevisionEndlessStorytellingStorytellerCablesSerialsStreaming Author:Kevin D. Williamson
“When I said on national television I still struggle, a reparative therapist called me and said if you'll come into therapy with me I can cure you of your temptations and attractions 100 percent. And then there are the offers of using homosexual pornography within the therapeutic process to help people understand why they're struggling.” PeopleIfsSaidStillsI CanHelpingProcessStruggleTelevisionOffersPercentAttractionCuresTemptationTherapyHomosexualPornographyTherapistsTherapeutic Author:Alan Chambers
“I have been very fortunate in that I'm not doing all network shows or all cable shows, television has really become a year-round process in the way that it's made.” WayYearsHas BeensMadeShowsProcessTelevisionRoundsFortunateCables Author:Bear McCreary