Tvs Quotes - Page 20

• When you're writing TV or movies your vernacular is time, it's all based on rhythms, a character takes a beat or two characters have a moment, like everything is about time. And when you're writing a comic, everything is about space. It's how many panels to put on a page, when should you do a full page splash, what is the detail that you see in any particular image.

  Eric Kripke

  Writing, Character, Two

  "'Supernatural' Creator Eric Kripke Opens Up About His New Comic 'Jacked'". Interview with Stacey Grant, www.mtv.com. November 23, 2015.

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• In TV and movies, you kill yourself spending all this time to think up the symbolism or what if that deer that runs across your hero's path somehow conveys what's going on inside your hero's head? When a lot of times, you just want to hear what he's thinking.

  Eric Kripke

  Running, Hero, Thinking

  "'Supernatural' Creator Eric Kripke Opens Up About His New Comic 'Jacked'". Interview with Stacey Grant, www.mtv.com. November 23, 2015.

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• I love working in TV. TV is fast. You shoot it and it's done quickly.

  Henry Ian Cusick

  Done

  "Henry Ian Cusick Talks New The CW Series THE 100, the Fun of Playing a Confused Misanthrope, How LOST Made Him Enjoy Not Knowing What Happens, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 19, 2014.

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• TV series, there's a lot of everybody talking to you and giving you input for the first couple episodes, and then they're on such a crazy schedule that you get another episode on a Monday, you have to have it done by Friday and it becomes very solitary work usually, TV shows.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Friday, Monday, Couple

  Source: collider.com

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• When I'm writing a theme song for a TV show I always think, "What would be Pavlovian where a kid would be in the kitchen, or an adult would be in the kitchen, and they hear the theme song come on and it would draw them back to the other room so that they would watch the show?"

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Song, Writing, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• I'd lived in LA for two years and I said to my agent that I wouldn't do any more network TV, because my family and I had just made the decision to live in England. It would be a whole year in LA shooting network TV.

  Damian Lewis

  Years, Two, Decision

  "'Homeland' Damian Lewis, David Harewood Q&A". Interview with Morgan Jeffery, www.digitalspy.com. February 13, 2012.

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• Why do we insist women are cast 10 years younger than the role they're playing? Men don't know what a 30-year-old is supposed to look like because on TV she's always 20.

  Carrie Coon

  Men, Years, Roles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Theater is the only thing I always came back to. When I was 9, I asked my mom if I could be on TV. She was like, "Well, okay. You can try."

  Liana Liberato

  Mom, Trying, Theater

  Interview with Rachel Small, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 5, 2014.

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• I'm actually really lazy. I tell myself, "Okay, you work six months out of the year and you have to get up at 4 a.m. ..." I'll relish the downtime by chilling on the couch and watching my favorite TV shows.

  Liana Liberato

  Years, Tv Shows, Lazy

  Interview with Rachel Small, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 5, 2014.

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• A lot of people plan for failure, but they don't plan for success, and that's a big problem, especially in the TV world 'cause you're trying to find out what your show is.

  J.H. Wyman

  People, Trying, World

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm obsessed with voices in film. I have this memory of how people say words, even on the most intensely stupid reality TV show.

  Jenny Hval

  Memories, Stupid, Reality

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• People are going to be seeing me a lot everywhere: TVs, music, movies, festivals. You name it, I'm gonna be there.

  AraabMuzik

  Names, People, Festivals

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 6, 2012.

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• People ultimately get what they deserve on TV. What people end up watching is what the advertising end up glomming onto and promoting.

  Adrian Pasdar

  People, Advertising, Ends

  Source: collider.com

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• I've always loved being at the eye of the storm creatively with people that I find exciting and glamorous. So sometimes I got sidetracked in my career and maybe I would have done more TV or film.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Eye, Careers, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• TV is providing such amazing possibilities - you have such lively characters, fantastic stories and ambiguous messages, and viewers feel very satisfied.

  Fedor Bondarchuk

  Character, Stories, Messages

  Source: collider.com

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• You're just always looking for something new. That's why a lot of people bounce between TV and movies. You have the ability to try something else.

  Jon Turteltaub

  People, Trying, Something New

  Source: collider.com

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• Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast.

  June Diane Raphael

  Writing, Tv Shows, Pilots

  Source: collider.com

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• If you get on a TV show that's successful, odds are that you're playing the same character for as many years as the show is running, which can be its own blessing, but it can also be a curse because you're playing the same thing and that can be tiresome.

  Sarah Paulson

  Running, Character, Successful

  Source: collider.com

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• Dracula isn't just another vampire show. It's something entirely different that I personally feel I've never seen on American TV before.

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen

  Vampire, Different, Shows

  Source: collider.com

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• I rarely watch TV, and in the past two years, I've done three TV shows. It's quite interesting.

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen

  Past, Years, Tv Shows

  Source: collider.com

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• I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as it is, and that's made for American TV.

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen

  Drama, Elements, London

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was eight or nine years old, I saw the TV version of 47 Ronin, played by Toshiro Mifune. He played Oishi. That was my first experience. I watched every week with my brother. "Who plays Oishi tonight? Who will play Kira tonight?" And we fought every week.

  Hiroyuki Sanada

  Brother, Eight, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• I saw a lot of 47 Ronin on the TV, in the films, and I've done Chushingura Gaiden Yotsuya Kaidan [Crest of Betrayal, 1994] directed by Kinji Fukasaku.

  Hiroyuki Sanada

  Betrayal, Done, Ronin

  Source: collider.com

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• Al Gore announced Tuesday that he plans to launch a 24-hour cable news network for young adults. Gore claims he's been wanting to do this since he invented cable TV in the 1990s.

  Tina Fey

  Tuesday, Adults, News

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• Hollywood doesn't believe in the death penalty for anyone except people who get cable TV without paying for it. Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Believe, Talking, People

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