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The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft.

The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.

The best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly.

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

The Buccaneers was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.

The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.

The cinema was certainly an art, but television can't be, because it is the museum of accidents. In other words, its art is to be the site where all accidents happen. But that's its only art.

The closest I came to doing anything that I wanted to do was to try and check and see what industries were just starting out. There was plastics and television, and I figured television had to be more fun than plastics.

The days of holding the audience captive to watching television at times that programmers tell them they have to watch it are coming to an end. It's a new world, where the viewer and fan wants to watch whatever they want to watch, whenever they want to watch it.

The book can't compete with the screen. It couldn't compete beginning with the movie screen. It couldn't compete with the television screen and it can't compete with the computer screen I don't think. And now we have all those screens so against all those screens I think the book can't measure up.

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 Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

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 Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations.

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 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 enemy of good television is boredom and predictability.

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

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

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

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

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

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 future of American film lies on television.

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

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

The impact of television on our culture is just indescribable.

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

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

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

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

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

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.