“It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.” KindLittlesTodayFilmUsedActorsBitsLinesHappenedOne ThingStageTelevisionTvsLittle BitUsed To BeCrossoverMovie ActorsFilm ActorsStage Actors Author:Aaron Tveit
“Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?” ThinkingWellsRunningFilmUsedEffectsTelevisionIndustryUsed To BeDigitalVisionariesFilm And TelevisionTelevision Industry Author:Bill Mumy
“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
“David Epstein, the author of the best book on athletics in recent memory - "The Sports Gene" - wrote to me to say that he thinks I'm being overly generous. He points out that, for years, there used to be an "all-star challenge" on television, in which the best professional athletes from a variety of sports competed in a kind of makeshift decathlon.” ThinkingYearsKindBookUsedStarsSportsChallengesMemoriesTelevisionAthleteUsed To BeVarietyGenerousGenesAthleticsProfessional AthleteAll StarsDecathlon Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“There's a lot of great writing, and characters, and stories being told in television nowadays. And much more than there used to be. The opportunities to tell stories, because of the opportunities to show content. And so it's drawing actors from cinema, movie actors, actors to where there's a lot of opportunities to where you can tell stories.” WritingCharacterStoriesShowsUsedActorsOpportunityTelevisionDrawingUsed To BeCinemaGreat WritingMovie Actors Author:Keanu Reeves
“There used to be a huge snobbism between the film industry and the television industry. I produced and acted in my first - well way back - but the first thing that I produced and acted in was Sarah, Plan and Tall. And the only place to go at the time for really quality television was Hallmark Hall of Fame. And think how much television has changed since then.” ThinkingWayFirstsWellsFilmUsedQualityPlansChangedTelevisionHugeIndustryFameUsed To BeHallsTallHallmarkFilm IndustryHall Of FamePlaces To GoTelevision Industry Author:Glenn Close
“Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.” WayWritingYearsMadeHandsJobsUsedGivenFiveWeekCenturyTelevisionTvsSixHollywoodScriptsStudiosUsed To BeMy TimeContractsStaff21st CenturyBack WhenGreat JobMovie Business Author:Vince Gilligan