Television Quotes - Page 35

• His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both its sponsors and its intended audience.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Mean, Government, Administration

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• I think in the world we live in where television is the principal source of information for most people, it really affects the balance of the democratic process. The fairness of the democratic process.

  Alexander Stille

  Thinking, People, Balance

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't think people have fully processed how deeply television has changed the political process in our own world. Political parties have become vestiges of what they were and individuals with large amounts of money can leapfrog over that process, which can have a positive mediating effect. And so I think there are things to worry about.

  Alexander Stille

  Party, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What's amazing about doing movies, compared to television, there's an ending you can see. There's an enthusiasm to it.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Enthusiasm

  "EXCLUSIVE: Jim Gaffigan Brings the Funny with King Baby". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 27, 2009.

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• I think we're dealing with a realm of human experience that doesn't get all that much attention on television.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Thinking, Attention, Human Experience

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Television is so cool. Television is proving that we can be sophisticated and that people will watch, if it's good.

  Jose Padilha

  People, Watches, Sophisticated

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm an actor and I am looking for roles where I can continue to evolve, and things that are challenging. I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.

  Octavia Spencer

  Interesting, Challenges, Roles

  "Octavia Spencer Talks RED BAND SOCIETY, Her Character’s Journey in Season 1, Favorite Scenes, and More". Interview, collider.com. September 16, 2014.

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• I like the fact that a modern television and modern drama on cable has characters that are really intricate and deep and have multiple layers.

  Matthew Lillard

  Drama, Character, Layers

  "Matthew Lillard Talks the Bridge Season 2, His Favorite Aspect of the Character, the Scream Tv Show, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 20, 2014.

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• Reality television is less honest than YouTube. YouTube is the real reality.

  Larry Gelbart

  Real, Honest, Youtube

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Shooting a television show is hard enough, and it takes a lot of time away from your personal life and your family life.

  David Boreanaz

  Shooting, Enough, Family Life

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 12, 2014.

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• I went to the top of the mountain in television and could do anything I wanted, but I wanted to do an independent film, which results in you paying your own way, fighting like hell to get distribution, and maybe 30 people will see it. That was a good idea.

  Joel Surnow

  Independent, Fighting, Ideas

  "Christopher Meloni and Writer/Director Joel Surnow Talk SMALL TIME, Returning to a Script from 1976, Casting Process, SIN CITY 2, and SURVIVING JACK". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 18, 2014.

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• I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated. And there's so much more responsibility because the medium is very much a director's medium. Television is much more of a producer's writer's medium so a lot of the time when you're directing a television show they have a color palette on set or a visual style and dynamic that's already been predetermined and you just kind of have to follow the rules.

  Jason Bateman

  Responsibility, Color, Style

  "Jason Bateman Talks Making His Feature Directorial Debut, Why He Chose This Script, Shooting Digitally, and More on the Set of Bad Words". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 7, 2014.

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• I think television is moving more into movies, particularly with serialization and almost cinematic proportions and expectations. A show like 'Game of Thrones' is a perfect example of that, or even a show like 'The Wire,' which isn't all about instant gratification it's about inviting someone into the long experience of television the way you'd be invited into a theater for two hours. So I think in that way, and the quality of writing in television is probably much better than most film writing.

  Bryan Singer

  Moving, Writing, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.

  Aaron Paul

  Two, Long, Stories

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• I don't really see a huge divide between filmmaking and television. In the end, a lot of people are going to be watching this stuff on their laptops and their iPhones anyway. So, it doesn't really matter where it comes from, as long as the stories get told.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Iphone, Long, People

  "Director Cary Fukunaga Talks TRUE DETECTIVE, Making an 8-Hour Film, Future Seasons, BEASTS OF NO NATION, Modernizing Horror with IT, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2014.

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• Working in theater, film or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such.

  James Spader

  Jobs, Different, Three

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't believe in proper cinema; it doesn't have the strength of television. People having to go out to the cinema is really archaic. I'd much rather sit at home.

  David Bowie

  Believe, Home, People

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.43, Melville House

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• Television is what we're all very attracted to because that's where the best writing and the best characters are.

  Ioan Gruffudd

  Writing, Character, Best Character

  Source: collider.com

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• I do like working on independent films where it is a smaller budget and less pressure. The pace is also quicker than that of a big budget film. You are shooting at a fairly fast pace. Sitting around for three or four days can be quite draining. So I guess in terms of film or television, I would say filming an independent feature.

  Colm Meaney

  Independent, Three, Pace

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Television, for me, is a medium that I'm probably always going to be attached to, one way or another.

  Idris Elba

  Way, Mediums, One Way

  "Idris Elba Talks LUTHER Season 3, Luther’s New Love Interest and His Relationship with Alice, Exploring a Prequel Story, and Future Seasons". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 28, 2013.

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• I believe the media pretty much dictates the way relationships are handled, even in the way we handle ourselves. Abuse, cheating, threesomes, it's inspired by music and television. Irresponsible artists and writers with a hidden agenda, just working against the moral fabric that God intended for us to have.

  Tony Gaskins

  Cheating, Believe, Artist

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• There's a lot of stuff I want to do, just things that I want to explore that don't involve show business. I'm going to become a television critic. Can you imagine? But I would even consider becoming a baseball scout. Traveling around the heartland looking for the next world-beating phenom.

  Charlie Sheen

  Baseball, Heart, World

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• Maybe it has something to do with being a reporter for a long time that I don't look to newspapers and television and so forth for inspiration most of the time.

  Michael Connelly

  Inspiration, Long, Looks

  "Michael Connelly on the Book He Had To Stop Writing". Interview with Nathan Rostron, www.bookish.com. February 4, 2013.

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• It [TV] is the cancer of film. It's why people can't be educated to film. In the late '60s, we expected to see a movie or two every week and be stimulated, excited and inspired. And we did. Every week after week. Antonioni, Goddard, Truffaut - this endless list of people. And then comes television and home video. I know how to work exactly for the big screen, but it doesn't matter what I think about the art of movie-making versus TV.

  Jack Nicholson

  Art, Cancer, Home

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• I always thought that television was the way to go in my goal to invade pop culture because it got to towns in which there were no bookstores. That's how I used to think of it: How do I reach kids who not only don't read but probably have no access to much in the way of books?

  Matt Groening

  Book, Kids, Thinking

  "Matt Groening looks to the future". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2009.

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