“I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.” HeartFireTelevisionUnderstoodBurningAppealsCharmPrimitiveIrresistible Author:John Updike
“My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.” FirstsSeemsFilmTelevisionUnderstoodReactionsPublication Author:Alain Resnais
“I went to West Texas and started writing a cycle of Americana poems after the space conjured images that, as a child, I only saw on television-John Wayne, cowboys, borderlines. But suddenly, I felt close to these once-foreign imageries and wondered how I'd changed. Each evening brought the darkest skies in the country, and I understood the expansiveness of our inner selves. Ultimately nothing divides us except the worlds and words we allow.” WorldWritingChildrenSelfCountryFeltSpaceSawsSkyChangedTelevisionUnderstoodWestEveningCyclesTexasDividesCowboyImageryInner SelfWayneBorderlineAmericanaExpansivenessWest Texas Author:Nathalie Handal
“I hope there's a window that opens in American television where the rest of the world is viewed in a less censored light. There is something about the world outside the United States that is not understood here - that seems threatening to Americans.” WorldStatesLightSeemsUnitedUnited StatesTelevisionUnderstoodWindowThreateningCensoredAmerican Television Author:Rula Jebreal
“My parents both had a great sense of humor, and always laughed a lot. One night, when they were watching Candid Camera, I finally understood what comedy was all about. I heard the laughter on television, I turned around and saw my parents laughing, and that's when I thought: 'This is great. This is what I can do. I'm gonna prank somebody.'” I CanNightParentCan DoLaughingSawsComedyHeardTelevisionLaughterUnderstoodCamerasSense Of HumorLaughedOne NightCandidPranksCandid Camera Author:Howie Mandel
“We get a successful television series or something, and next season they give you less time and less money, which is something I've never really understood. That doesn't happen with Game of Thrones.” GivingHappensNextGamesSuccessfulTelevisionUnderstoodSeasonsSeriesThrones Author:Charles Dance
“Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.” ThinkingMayHas BeensMediaTelevisionCommunicationUnderstoodPressesErrorsTragicInabilityRapport Author:Lyndon B. Johnson