“A few years ago you couldn't go from TV to film. It was like a 'no no' but I believe when you find a plan and purpose that God has for your life, there's not anything man can do to you. Especially when your faith is not really standing in the wisdom of man, you're really standing in the wisdom of God.” MenYearsBelieveFilmPurposeI BelieveCan DoPlansTvsYears AgoStanding Author:Derek Luke
“Clay Aiken ran for Congress in North Carolina. But he didn't make it. Clay Aiken is famous for coming in second in a TV popularity contest that most people got fed up with years ago. He also lost on 'American Idol.'” PeopleYearsLostTvsYears AgoCongressRanFedsIdolsPopularityContestsClayCarolinaFed UpNorth CarolinaAmerican IdolPopularity Contest Author:Craig Ferguson
“They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV is the only thing that keeps us vaguely in democracy even if it's in the hands of the corporate culture. If you're an artist you write in your time. Moaning about the fact that maybe people read more books a hundred years ago - that's not true. I think the same percentage has always read.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingYearsBookFactsHandsArtistCultureDemocracyTvsHundredYears AgoPressesCorporateLiteracyPercentagesPrintingCorporate CulturePrinting PressMoaningGutenberg Author:Sherman Alexie
“I'm not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.” YearsWholeTvsCoupleNewsYears AgoQuittingNot InterestedOutlookI QuitOutlook On Life Author:Tom Petty
“I think that's so particularly exciting about this moment in time is all the new platforms that are now existing, the Netflixes and the Hulus and Amazons and so and so forth; I mean they are really doing what pay TV was doing twenty years ago. So a show like Dancing On The Edge gets to have a digital life after it's playing on Starz. I think what's exciting is how these new platforms are providing more opportunities both for first-run programming on the one hand but also for second plays for shows that have appeared first either on traditional broadcast or on cable.” ThinkingYearsFirstsMeanPlayMomentsShowsHandsRunningOpportunityPayTvsYears AgoExcitingTwentiesDancingEdgesTraditionalProgrammingDigitalPlatformsProvidingCablesMoments In TimeNetflix Author:Colin Callender
“The most rewarding part of writing for TV is - a year ago I would have said it's just watching it on TV, it's just having been done with it and then collecting all that energy.” WritingYearsSaidDoneEnergyTvsYears AgoCollecting Author:Dan Harmon
“When I started in the business, years ago, people would always say, "You better get as much work as you can now because, once you get over 40, it's over." I don't see that with TV. Maybe it's because I am getting older, but the kinds of roles I'm drawn to are more mature roles.” PeopleYearsKindRolesTvsYears AgoMatureGet OverGetting OldGetting Older Author:Anna Silk
“The cost of campaigning has skyrocketed in recent years because of the falloff in TV viewership. With only one-third as many people watching TV as did 20 years ago, politicians have responded by buying three times as many ads, driving the cost of campaigning to levels which only favored candidates can afford.” PeopleYearsThreeLevelsTvsPoliticianCostYears AgoThirdsDrivingCandidatesBuyingAdsThree TimesCampaigningWatching Tv Author:Dick Morris
“It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.” WritingYearsDifferentCharacterWould BeFunnyUsedPerfectTvsOfficeFemaleYears AgoMalesEightUsed To BeOffendedFlawedPortrayal Author:Mindy Kaling
“Five years ago, I wasn't getting questions [about blogs and the internet] from the TV/radio critic of the New York Times.” YearsFiveNew YorkTvsInternetYears AgoCriticsRadioFive YearsBlogsNew York Times Author:Joe Buck
“The kids now, on "Junior," we educate the parents and it's quite a fascinating turnaround. You can just see the parents thinking, "S - , 10 years ago I was eating so bad, and now I'm seeing it through the eyes of my kids at 9, 10 years of age." There is an upside to that side of reality TV. It's not all negative.” ThinkingYearsRealityEyeKidsAgeParentSidesSeeingTvsEatingNegativeYears AgoFascinatingEducateJuniorsThrough The EyesReality TvTurnaround Author:Gordon Ramsay
“For example, it was this pack of wolves that sparked off the Rodney King affair a few years ago in Los Angeles. Let us consider the situation: a person videos Rodney King being beaten up by the cops. That person then sends in the footage to the TV station. Within hours riots flare up in the city!” YearsPersonsHoursCitiesSituationExampleTvsKingsYears AgoAffairVideoStationsLos AngelesCopPacksBeatenRiotFlareFlare UpPacks Of Wolves Author:Paul Virilio
“Breaking news is a thing that's on TV all day. 10 or 15 years ago, breaking news would get everybody around the table because it was going to be something huge.” YearsTvsHugeNewsYears AgoTablesBreaking News Author:Bradley Cooper
“I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.” ThinkingYearsHappensHoursDifferencesPartyTvsNewsYears AgoCycles Author:George H. W. Bush