My mum, who comes from Goa, wanted us to develop our minds when we were kids, so she used to turn the… — Laila Rouass Copy Share Image
If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I was like, 'Oh, let's do a show about the Underground Railroad.' I never come up with great titles, and I thought,… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
24 isn't like other shows, where you set the look once and you're done. The show started at midnight, then moved to… — Stephen Hopkins Copy Share Image
You cannot collectively, as a society, decide that you are only going to represent one part of a minority. It's like saying… — Jordan Gavaris Copy Share Image
People have to respond to the characters and respond to the situations that they're in. That said, it still has to be… — Adam Rayner Copy Share Image
Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an… — Bill Mumy Copy Share Image
I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Not all television scripts are created equal. And the process is ridiculous. They send you a script and want you in the… — Holt McCallany Copy Share Image
“New Yorkers think they’ve seen it all, heard it all, and know it all. But I learned from watching The Hour of… — Jo Maeder Copy Share Image
The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went… — Will McDonough Copy Share Image
We need to let the referee's sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They… — John Madden Copy Share Image
“TV is not the “entertainment” medium it is assumed to be. Newspapers and periodicals aren’t either. Pop music is “concerned” music, with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I look at a lot of shows. I look at a really broad spectrum; I look at everything from David Lean to… — Kari Skogland Copy Share Image
When people look at the ratings and they're bad, I think people can get an idea of "Why would they even make… — Scott Aukerman Copy Share Image
But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were… — Aaron Spelling Copy Share Image
What do you look at while you’re making up your mind? Ours is not a reflective culture, we do no raise our… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
When we graduated [ from Cambridge], we were grabbed right into television. I was grabbed straight into the practice of writing comedy.… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
There's a confusing message that we're sending people now, that lots of money can made off of simply having a lot of… — Justine Bateman Copy Share Image
I don't think people have fully processed how deeply television has changed the political process in our own world. Political parties have… — Alexander Stille Copy Share Image
If you study both 'Gilligan' and 'Brady,' you will see they are based on a similar philosophy: that it's possible for different… — Sherwood Schwartz Copy Share Image
Whenever you're blessed and given a second season, you can really let the characters evolve. That first season, you're setting everything up.… — Katy Mixon Copy Share Image
I feel 'Breaking Bad' - maybe everybody says this about their show - I feel like this show is so special that… — Betsy Brandt Copy Share Image
It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for… — Genevieve Gorder Copy Share Image
My life is unrecognisable compared to what it was - 'Game of Thrones' has opened doors that were never there before. But… — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
The first thing I did on television was a PBS thing where I played a priest. It was a Walt Whitman or… — Kelsey Grammer Copy Share Image
A lot of times, sets are not such fun places to be, and especially television sets, because everybody works so hard, and… — Paul Sparks Copy Share Image
People thought this was a computer IT gig, and that will flow through those nerdy departments and it won't come into fashion… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
The thing about being irresponsible is it's only cute till you are about twenty-two or so, then it becomes a liability. One… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
When I finished the series, I wasn't going to do television again. I never wanted to do television to begin with, and… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it's the most important thing in the move,… — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
Making a musical television show was always the ultimate dream. But I really didn't think it would ever happen. Because who's going… — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
Ratings to me are a little like the Chinese Government. I don't fully understand what makes a rating go. I don't know… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium -… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I was so fortunate to get the opportunity to be a writers' apprentice on A Different World. It was my favorite show.… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
It took seven years from the time I wrote Mad Men until it finally got on the screen. I lived every day… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information,… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
I realized I love motivating and I love empowering and I love inspiring people. I did that as an athlete for 18… — Dominique Dawes Copy Share Image
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