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In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is their development.

In some ways, TV is more regimented, but there is a level of professionalism that's very high, among the people that work in television.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.

in television the product is not the program; the product is the audience and the consumer of that product is the advertiser. The advertiser does not 'buy' a news program. He buys an audience.

In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top

In television, the creator is really the voice...

In television, there's no time. You can't walk around and get into the mood. Nobody is going to wait for you. They're like, "Let's go!," and I'm like, "Wait, I haven't gotten in the mood!

In television, you can leave so many things open-ended. For everything you wrap up, you can open another one or two.

In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and Ive managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either.

In television, I don't feel constraints. I feel a lot freedom to maneuver.

In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel.

In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.

In this era of affluence and of permissiveness, we have, in all but cultural areas, bred a nation of overprivileged youngsters, saturated with vitamins, television and plastic toys.

In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors

In truth, ayahuasca is the television of the forest.

I only like the live audience. I don't even like to do standup where it's being filmed. Because it affects the way the audience responds to what you say, because it makes them uncomfortable. You have to perform in a light room, and I prefer a dark room. But I love to perform, and I don't really see myself doing any television at all.

I personally don't have a problem with naked bodies on television.

I often say, with something like 'The Elephant Man,' had it been an American series for television, where you have to sign your life away for seven years...well, maybe I would never have made 'Sailcloth.'

I originally read for the roles of Debra and Rita [in Dexter], because they didn't know what direction they were going in, and I worked so hard on Deb, because I just wanted to swear. I wanted to say all those nasty words. That was it: "I want to swear on television!".

I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it's a little bit more disjointed.

I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.

I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.

I really like doing television shows, and I anticipated doing a comedy, because thats the place I feel the most comfortable - those are the risks I want to take.

I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.

I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.

I remember one of the legendary German broadcasters saying, "Germany's future is America's present," and it really was that with the penetration of television.

I remember saying, very almost jokingly, I'm going to take over the world through television, that's my plan. And I said it to my agent, and I said it to my friends, and I said it to myself.

I saw Vicente Fox use the word that he used. I can only tell you, if I would have used even half of that word, it would have been national scandal. This guy used a filthy, disgusting word on television, and he should be ashamed of himself, and he should apologize, OK?

I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television.

I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated. I was up early watching television and watched the announcement. I didn't understand what the word 'assassinated' meant.

I resent almost all of the time I spend in front of the television, but I find 'The Only Way Is Essex' absolutely riveting.

I saw the end of the general magazine business at the end of the '70s, and I knew I had to move into another profession when the advertising dollar moved from magazines to television. The magazine business as we knew it was over. We were no longer the educators of the world.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?

I set out in television with one simple goal: to purchase a Russian bride. Didn't work out. Immigration stuff - it's complicated.

Is it really that important? It's just television, for God's sake. It's not medicine or something.

I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.

I spent my career trying to speak to the broadest possible audience whether it's in print or whether it's in television.

I started [in television] as a local sportscaster in Oklahoma City and that will always be my love. It's kind of what I live for.

I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.

I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies.

Is television literally functioning as our conscience, tempting us and rewarding us at the same time?

I still remember vividly watching television coverage of the Democratic National Convention in the summer of 1992 (when he was 17) when Bill Clinton got the nomination. That was certainly a part of my growing interest in politics.

I suppose it’s true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. “M.A.S.H.” comes to mind. So does The Iliad.

I suppose I would like to be remembered as one of the funniest men that people have seen on television.

I stopped watching television like a fiend once I got into college.

I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses.