Television has a conscience. It is how we disseminate our value system.
If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show we've got a really big problem.
The thing that cracks me up is how these reality characters start out thrilled and excited just to be on television, and how they move to thinking they are as big as the Friends.
The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.
Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people. But, of course, these motorcars, television sets and refrigerators do not make a man happy. In the instant in which he acquires them, he may feel happier than he did before. But as soon as some of his wishes are satisfied, new wishes spring up. Such is human nature.
What a wonderful time for women on television.
I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.
What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a great many people.
I would like to think that television would be representative of the world we live in.
As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It’s the reason why people love Harry Potter. Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you’re a young kid, you get attached to these characters.
I grew up watching British television because I lived so close to Canada.
Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in our physical lives.
Look at television and how comparatively few minorities are out there.
People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway.
The public read newspapers, see television, they watch, they don't know if it's true or false because they're not involved.
There's a lot a great television nowadays.
Television is my home. It's a special breed of person that can do nine months on and three months off, with 22 episodes of one-hour shows. It's very hard work. It can be a grind. It's not a grind for me. I relish in that.
Television and the way we watch is going to change dramatically in the next year.
I just don't see the social good in using taxpayer money to fund a network that provides more television and bandwidth for illegally downloading files.
Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.
