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The Ryan Murphy television world has assistants who have become producers and writers and. If he trusts you and you have a unique way of seeing his world, he nurtures you.

The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

These days all you need is the ability to watch television and hold a potato at the same time to call yourself a designer.

These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.

These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.

The showrunner relationship in television is what the director relationship in film, there's really no more important relationship.

The short-term problems are economic - royalties, unions, irresponsible management. The long-term problems are artistic, and they started 40 years ago with the advent of television and the upgrading of films.

The Simpsons is the best thing on American television.

The strange thing about television is that it - doesn't *tell* you everything.

The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.

The Television is the monster of hell.

The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still paramount.

The television industry claims they are only reflecting society with their programming and have no influence on behavior. If that is the case then why do businesses spend millions on TV ads that have no influence?

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

The television set's on while the family's sitting around having dinner or talking. Nobody's watching TV; it's there; they're aware of it, but they're not participating. That's passive.

The theater commitment is hard, especially in conjunction with a television commitment. That's a big, long commitment.

The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.

The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I'm writing movies and television.

The thing I love about television is that people watch you in their pajamas, and when they're eating dinner. You're part of the family.

The thing that's helped me from wrestling is sometimes when you do live television, things change immediately, so you can be immersed in one story and then the story shifts. Ultimately, if you just get the point of what you're trying to accomplish, if you know the story, then you can put forth a good product.

The thrill of doing television versus features is in television you get to focus more on the characters.

The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.

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.

The value of the television network is partly tradition, serving as a navigation device and as a brand. Research shows that people do know and understand ABC as a brand, like Disney.

The vast majority of Americans agree with us. We're doing everything that we can. We're advertising, right now we're on television with an advertisement running in the Washington area. We've got newspaper ads.

The worst thing about television is that everybody you see on television is doing something better than what you're doing. You never see anybody on TV just sliding off the front of the sofa, with potato chip crumbs all over their shirt.

The way television works is that directors come in and out, and they're not there all the time, following every character through every scene. They're vagabonds who go from one show to another.

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.

The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.

The world is going mad at an accelerating rate and television is the Typhoid Mary of this madness.

They call television a medium because nothing's well done.

The young people look great on television. They’re youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven’t got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so.

The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on a page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.

The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.

They say that ninety per cent of TV is junk. But ninety per cent of everything is junk.

They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.

Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply; things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem. We're a world, as I said in The Affluent Society, of filthy streets and clean houses, poor schools and expensive television.

They want me on the television shows now because I did so well on Celebrity Assholes.

This isn't brain surgery; it's just television.

This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.

Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to .... A form of political illiteracy.

This is what America's all about, nobody's being hurt they have a right to express themselves, I watched all the television I could on Miami-Dade and I didn't see anybody being shoved around.

To kick things off, [television show host Andy Cohen] asked the last time Winfrey had smoked marijuana. 'Uh ... 1982,' Winfrey replied. 'Let's hang out after the show,' Cohen joked. 'Okay,' Winfrey laughed. 'I hear it's gotten better.'

To be able to actually sit in a theater and watch people get off on anything that I had a part in, is just thrilling. When you work in television, it's an isolating experience. You rarely ever get to watch it with an audience.

To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you exist in this world? How is it you're not robbed daily by charlatans who knock at your door?

To me, television is one of the most exciting things going on right now, as far as content goes. Some of these shows that are on television are better than any of the movies out there.

To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick.