If you feel so strongly about what's on television, don't have one.
The challenge is that we live in a time where there's a lot of crap on television.
Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
It wasn't until I got involved in Doctor Who that I started doing dramas on television.
Although I don't get the parts in films or other television shows that would be befitting of a huge, international star, I don't have to worry about walking around on the street or eating at a restaurant. Occasionally, you do get recognized a little bit. And that's fine. Most people are pretty cool about it. That's the thing - it's such a low-key thing that I can still enjoy it and not worry about it.
I know how I felt when I saw things like 'Fame' on television when I was growing up and how that was an exceptional magnet for me to want to explore the theater. I can only assume that 'Smash' is doing that for anyone who is halfway interested in theater already.
Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
I loved playing Walternate because he was completely the same character, version 1985, and then it developed in such a different way, physically and mentally. So, to be able to play that, in the same television series, as playing the other ones was a fantastic gift for me.
Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.
Though the Floundering Fathers didn't intend it, we now see that representative government quickly turns into the dictatorship of the proletariat. If you doubt this, I congratulate you on not having a television.
It's not even that finding laundry pleasurable or delightful should be our goal rather than finding television delightful. It's that both laundry and television can be delightful.
Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.
Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.
News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.
Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.
it was Tark's experience that TV addicts were usually addicted to something else as well. Food, booze, drugs, sex, money, take your pick.
I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.
American television really is pathetic.
When we're not trying to kill each other with spells, we just sit in in Daniel's dressing room watching cricket games on television.
He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.