I wanted to branch out into American television, specifically because you get to develop a character for a longer period of time and you get to develop a relationship with the audience.
Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.
I'm very physical. I grew up boxing. I've done almost all of my own stunts in movies and in television.
Television is a very highly constructed, and edited, and censored, and tailored, and marketed reality. But I'm not judgemental about it. I don't have anything against television. I just personally don't feel curious.
I learned how to speak English watching television.
We know what Donald Trump has said and what he's done to women. But he also went after a disabled reporter, mocked and mimicked him on national television.
Television deprives children of their imaginations.
Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives. . . . [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.
The fans always ask me, 'Is Si that crazy in real life?' and I said, 'No, hey, he tones it down for television. '
The patient in the bed next to me told me that the newspapers were reporting on the test, and it was on television all day long.
Me personally, I wouldn't put my kids on television. But to each his own.
I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.
You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.
I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.
The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.
People are pursuing happiness, but they're pursuing things that will never, ever make them happy, and they don't know that. They've got a distorted view of what will make them happy, what happiness is, and it's based on what they see on television.
The movies television and music we used to produce created an image of America that the world envied. . . now the millions around the world call us the Great Satan - and with good cause.
People have always said since TV was invented what a cultural wasteland it is but I think it is the worst and the best. It is the golden age of television.
I knew I wanted to work in Cinemascope because I find it much more beautiful just in terms of the shape of the screen, the wider image, and it's also less like television, which is important.
The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing.