“I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.” MadeWrittenHavensTelevisionMemoir Author:Sally Ride
“Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women.” WorldFilmRolesWrittenTelevisionBecomingComplexes Author:Julianna Margulies
“I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.” ThinkingEyeWrittenTelevisionIndustryPublic Eye Author:Roone Arledge
“So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.” ThinkingShouldStillsImportantLiteratureWrittenTelevisionNewsImportant ThingsRelyWritten Word Author:Kurt Loder
“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
“Certainly, I am aware that there have been a number of articles written about me and television shows in which I have been featured and referred to as a "cult leader."” Has BeensShowsNumbersLeaderWrittenTelevisionBuddhismArticlesCultRamaTelevision Shows Author:Frederick Lenz
“There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.” WrittenTelevisionTheaterAgreeCriticsLike SomethingMovie Critic Author:Aaron Sorkin
“I wish I could have a recurring role on 'Modern Family'. I think 'Modern Family' is the best comedy on television. It's extremely well written, extremely well acted and directed.” ThinkingWellsWishRolesComedyWrittenModernTelevisionWell WrittenRecurringModern FamilyBest Comedy Author:Patti LuPone
“There's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him. He's kind of a stranger to our industry, to this medium. You have to go back to the 1930s to find a movie that's just about Abraham Lincoln. I just found that my fascination with Lincoln, which started as a child, got to the point where after reading so much about him I thought there was a chance to tell a segment of his life to to moviegoers.” KindChildrenMadeReadingFoundChanceWrittenTelevisionIndustryStrangerMediumsFascinationAbraham1930sPortraying Author:Steven Spielberg
“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
“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
“I think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are.” ThinkingFilmWrittenTelevisionOppositesSeries Author:Bryan Cranston
“When I write a film, the film gets handed off to a producer and a director and I go my merry way. With television, I am expected and contracted to stick around and actually produce what I've written.” WayWritingFilmWrittenProduceTelevisionDirectorsSticksExpectedProducersMerry Author:Marc Guggenheim
“This is, in fact, the biggest show that Marvel television has ever taken on, in the animation world. We had a real challenge that was posed to us, and that was this little, tiny art-house movie that came out last year, that I don't know if you saw, called Marvel's The Avengers, written and directed by our friend Joss Whedon, and it really set the template.” IfsKnowsWorldYearsLittlesArtRealFactsShowsLastsHouseChallengesTakenSawsWrittenTelevisionTinyLast YearAnimationAvengers Author:Jeph Loeb
“Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television, or just written.” WrittenTelevision Author:Jared Harris
“I find broadcast intensely stressful, to the extent that perversely, I've never seen anything I've written actually broadcast on television. So, the audience response is something which I became aware of gradually.” AudienceWrittenTelevisionResponseStressful Author:Neil Cross
“People are put down in television now, not because they're not qualitative, not because they're not talented - but because there's no room for them, and worse than that, there's nowhere they can find exposure. Their own good talent may die of mourning, just for want of having somebody read what they've written. I don't presume to say how we can best provide platforms for new writers to get read. I don't know. But therein lies the major problem.” PeopleKnowsWantMayProblemLyingDiesRoomsWrittenTalentTelevisionMajorsMourningPlatformsExposureMajor ProblemsQualitative Author:Rod Serling
“You don't really have time to do other than what's written. It's very rigid. Shows have a certain rhythm that nobody wants disturbed. So a lot of that doesn't take place on television, at least the television I was doing at the time when I first started.” WantFirstsShowsCertainWrittenTelevisionRhythmDisturbed Author:Gary Cole