“The comic book, and I've said it before, is a treasure trove. It's a grab bag. We certainly have characters and story lines that we really want to do - but to get there in a TV series, you have to take your time. Sometimes you can't get right to it. They're two different mediums. So we make it our own and really own the material. I like to think of it as an alternate universe.” ThinkingWantSaidTwoBookDifferentSometimesCharacterStoriesUniverseLinesMaterialsTvsSeriesTreasureMediumsComicBagsComic BookTv SeriesTake Your Time Author:Glen Mazzara
“Seems there's a big debate going on about whether a new TV commercial for Minute Maid orange juice portrays Popeye and Bluto as gay lovers or just good friends. The commercial shows Popeye and Bluto at the beach and riding a bicycle for two. I don't think that makes them gay. I think the fact they both find Olive Oyl attractive, that makes them gay.” ThinkingTwoFactsShowsBigsSeemsMinutesTvsLoversGayDebateAdvertisingBeachAttractiveRidingGood FriendOrangeJuiceBicycleMaidsOlivesRiding A BicycleOrange JuiceTv CommercialPopeye Author:Jay Leno
“I had a career before the Stern show, on Mad TV. I was on the first two seasons of that and I got kicked off it because of possession of cocaine.” FirstsTwoShowsCareersTvsSeasonsMadPossessionCocaine Author:Artie Lange
“The amount of work that TV writers and executives do is incredibly hard. I'm shocked that these people will hand in three outlines and two scripts, and everybody has to read them and give notes on all of them, even the writers.” PeopleGivingTwoHardHandsThreeTvsAmountNotesScriptsExecutivesShockedOutlines Author:Zak Penn
“All kinds of violence on the TV. You're not supposed to watch violence on the TV. Children, they can't watch it 'cause they're afraid maybe the kids will copy something they see on the TV. I can't even get a funny cartoon anymore because some 12-year-old somewhere watched a particularly violent episode of the Road Runner-Coyote show, and the next day, they found him at the bottom of a canyon, two giant springs strapped to his feet.” YearsKindChildrenI CanTwoShowsKidsNextFoundCausesWatchesViolenceFeetTvsSpringBottomViolentAll KindsGiantsCopiesEpisodesRunnersCartoonNext DayCanyonsCoyotesRoad Runner Author:Norm MacDonald
“My dad's an actor. Ever since I was little, I'd watch him do it, and I was always very into it. I got into when I was about two years old. I started out with print work, doing modeling and stuff. Then I got into commercials and TV. Once I started, I loved doing it. It's just something that I've continuted over the years, and I love it.” YearsLittlesTwoActorsStuffWatchesTvsDadMy DadTwo YearsPrintModelingTwo Year Olds Author:Corbin Bleu
“I have the best of both worlds. I can talk about Taylor Swift during the day, and at night I can sit in front of the TV and watch Thursday night football. At some point, if the two converge and it becomes one job where I can still talk about both, that would be amazing.” IfsWorldStillsI CanTwoWould BeJobsNightWatchesFrontsFootballTvsThursdayBest Of Both WorldsThursday Night Author:Charissa Thompson
“Often when I'm on TV, they'll ask what are the three most important things for people to do. I know they want me to say that people should change their light bulbs. I say the number one thing is to organize politically; number two, do some political organizing; number three, get together with your neighbors and organize; and then if you have energy left over from all of that, change the light bulb.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantShouldTwoImportantLightTogetherPoliticalThreeAsksEnergyLeftNumbersOne ThingTvsImportant ThingsNeighborWant MeOrganizeGet TogetherBulbsLight BulbNumber Three Author:Bill McKibben
“We have to focus on his early work, and just one or two of his movies, and elements of his TV shows, to keep his memory pure. People now know that Elvis could play a mean rhythm guitar himself, and needed no other musicians to perform a great song. But Elvis was not just a rock star, he was an all-round entertainer.” PeopleKnowsMeanTwoPlayShowsSongStarsMemoriesFocusRocksTvsNeededPureElementsMusicianGuitarRoundsRhythmJust OneTv ShowsRock StarEntertainersEarly Work Author:Pete Townshend
“You can't come back to TV for two months. It's too short. You can't start anything. It's too much of a tease and there's really nowhere you can go.” TwoToo MuchTvsMonthsToo ShortTeaseTwo Months Author:Chris Jericho
“One of the first TV shows that I did was this prank show. And we did a prank where we took a Michael Jackson impersonator and I played his publisher.I was just really good at my job.We were just about to go onto the field to throw out the first pitch just two weeks after 9\11. It was a huge security breach, and we made a lot of cops look really dumb. Producers of the show thought it would be really funny and I didn't think about it because I was a young dumb comedian. So I got arrested and went to jail in the Bronx, and now I can never go back to Yankee Stadium.” ThinkingFirstsLooksMadeI CanTwoShowsWould BeJobsYoungWeekSecurityFieldsTvsHugeProducersDumbComedianJailCopTv ShowsPublishersYankeesArrestedTwo WeeksStadiumsBreachBronxPranksReally DumbYankee StadiumImpersonators Author:Rob Huebel
“A lot of it is just waking up and putting one foot in front of the other and going where I just go, a natural progression. The other thing is I do have a lot of ideas. TV seems to be where it happens faster, quicker. You are trying to get a movie off the ground, and it's very difficult. One movie takes two years to make” TryingYearsTwoIdeasSeemsHappensDifficultNaturalFeetFrontsTvsWake UpFasterTwo YearsWakingProgression Author:Kevin D. Williamson
“Maybe if I'd gone in younger, I wouldn't have had that feeling, but I've seen an enormous amount of changes since the early-'70s in how this stuff is shot. I did the first TV movie ever shot in 18 days; before this film the normal length of shooting a TV movie was between 21 and 26 days. We shot a full-up, two-hour TV movie in 18 days with Donald Sutherland playing the lead, who had never worked on television before.” IfsFirstsTwoFeelingsFilmStuffHoursGoneTelevisionTvsAmountNormalShotsEnormousShootingLength Author:Richard Masur
“The job is exactly the same, it just goes on for longer on TV. Most feature films are 35-40 shooting days. This has 10 parts, with different directors for each block. We shoot with two, sometimes three cameras.” TwoDifferentSometimesJobsFilmThreeTvsGoes OnDirectorsCamerasBlockShootingFeatures Author:Charles Dance
“Very few people actually saw Andy's films like Chelsea Girls where he filmed seven hours, ran it on two screens, where each scene was in a different room at the Chelsea Hotel with these people he called 'Superstars" who were basically super-exhibitionists - the guy in one room high on LSD talking about masturbation, Brigid Berlin in another room playing a lesbian and shooting up people with amphetamines right through their jeans, it was all real and they were really doing it (though Brigid is now a proper lady), but you know Andy really did pre-date reality TV.” PeopleKnowsTwoDifferentRealRealityFilmGuyGirlHoursRoomsTalkingSawsTvsSceneSevenScreensShootingRanHotelJeansBerlinSuperstarMasturbationReality TvChelseaLsdExhibitionistAmphetaminesShooting Up Author:Bob Colacello