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The difference between directing film and directing television is so stark simply because TV is a living breathing organism already when you direct an episode.

The difficult thing about shooting a television series is that you never have enough time. You really don't.

The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven't started yet.

The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability.

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and 80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

The experience I had all those 40 years of working on Broadway and working on television, I bring it to students and I let them kind of drain me dry but they all feel at the end of the class that they are getting so much out of it. The students grow in my classroom because they feel safe. They don't feel like they're going to be yelled at.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

The fact is that daytime television is less valued than nighttime, and its partly because of the product that we produce. We do a one-hour show in 12 hours. Nighttime produces a one-hour show in seven to nine days.

The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating.

The fans have access to the show and the creators, even if it's not direct. I don't know any television creators that don't follow the message boards. The feedback is so immediate, to see what is working and what isn't, and what's working better than you anticipated.

The fault is in our stars, dear Brutus: not the glass screen through which we see them.

The faultless formulas of television-the ones that last-are simple.

The first presidential debate was down in Florida. Residents spent all day putting plywood on their televisions.

The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.

The future of American film lies on television.

The future of television is what our competitors have been doing for years.

The genre of television that I love and watch is so vast. There's not one type of thing I love.

The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It is not only bad - it is damaging, meretricious, seedy and cynical.

The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.

The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?

The gospel preached during every television show is 'You only go around once in life, so get all the gusto you can.' It is a statement about theology; it is a statement about beer. It's lousy beer and even worse theology.

The idea of being on television is to wear your T-shirt so people see it and maybe buy it.

The great thing about Los Angeles is that you can get so much money in this town by constantly failing. You can get a lot of television deals that don't go anywhere, but you still get paid.

The idea of being in a television series is a wonderful one to be considered, but you want to make sure it's the right thing for you because if you are fortunate enough to have something go for a long term, you want to make sure that it's something that you really want to be spending a bulk of your time on.

The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.

The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.

The impact of television on our culture is just indescribable.

The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.

The introduction of Harriet Tubman is going to be very exciting, she's a real life superhero so for us to be able to feature her this season is groundbreaking for a television series.

The jokes were perfect! Then George Carlin started talking about the seven dirty words you can't say on television, then it evolved into social commentary.

The mass media in the days of newspapers and television it's hard to be able to find a story that's about just what you're interested in at the time you're interested in it.

The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.

The making of television has changed quite a bit. Now you have to do them n cheaper budgets.

The mediated world has approached us from a lot of different directions and we have freely chosen our automobiles and our skyscrapers and our televisions and our telephones and our computers because they have given us power and freedom. Now we are beginning to notice there's a price to pay for them. It's all interconnected, the good stuff and the bad stuff comes together.

The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become.

The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.

The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies.

The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television and yet they are absolutely invisible.

The movies television and music we used to produce created an image of America that the world envied... now the millions around the world call us the Great Satan - and with good cause.

The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.

The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and statisticians are all contributing to the extinction problem. And the general public is taking part through television talk shows, magazine cover stories, newspaper editorials, and even the occasional mention in gossip columns.

The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers.

The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper images of the garbage.

The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.

The only time I get recognised is when I go somewhere that is showing 'Coupling' on local television.

The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?

The problem is that people love music and they love television, but people don't love music on TV.