TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“Gore Vidal, for instance, once languidly told me that one should never miss a chance either to have sex or to appear… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue… — Charles W. Pickering Copy Share Image
I told them [the producers] I couldn't compound the lie that Black fathers don't care about their children. I was proud of… — Esther Rolle Copy Share Image
MTV and video games have solved that problem as far as most of humanity goes. That, and telly, as it were.” “Telly?”… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
After making a movie, maybe you weren't able to shoot many of your ideas, because a movie is only 1 1/2 or… — Andrew Lau Copy Share Image
With issues like our country's teen-age pregnancy rate, fashion's importance ranks right up there with cleaning your ears. Except right before going… — Jane Pratt Copy Share Image
Arguably, the first five years of 'Saturday Night Live' were some of the most radical things ever seen on television. When NBC… — Richard Belzer Copy Share Image
I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think… — Regis Philbin Copy Share Image
I love whiskey, and I'm a big fan of 'Mad Men,' so anything that Don Draper does, I like to do. But… — Charles Kelley Copy Share Image
The great thing about Los Angeles is that you can get so much money in this town by constantly failing. You can… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
The deaf community is nearly never portrayed accurately on television/film because most writers never took the time to immerse themselves in the… — Sean Berdy Copy Share Image
Who knows what happens with 'Housewives?' I will say this, what a great opportunity to have been on the show, and the… — Erika Jayne Copy Share Image
You get more out of doing a web series than a pilot, in some ways, especially when we were interviewing for writers.… — Jillian Bell Copy Share Image
I've been in very protective shows: 'How to Get Away With Murder,' 'Vampire Diaries,' and even 'Gracepoint' and 'Supernatural.' They really protect… — Kendrick Sampson Copy Share Image
Something that I learned from 'Friday Night Lights,' sometimes if you have four or five scenes in an episode, it's not having… — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
We can be whoever we want. We can do whatever we want. We can be superheroes, because in many ways we are.… — Nicole Maines Copy Share Image
Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
I dont mean to insult television, but a lot of the time, its pretty straightforward. If you say, I love you, you… — Michael Learned Copy Share Image
I was kind of reared by television, but the BBC, it still had that thing - and people are always invoking that… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
When I read a story or see something play out in front of me I say, how come nobody's made a movie… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
It came from nowhere, blazed up like a brush fire, pulled us together at the bottom of the Depression, held us together… — Sam Moore Copy Share Image
Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV… — Paul Daniels Copy Share Image
I think people are tired of the CSI/SVU style of lurid and gory crime dramas. I believe there's a craving for lighter… — Carol Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
Television is a very highly constructed, and edited, and censored, and tailored, and marketed reality. But I'm not judgemental about it. I… — Jodhi May Copy Share Image
For those of you that have been following Ultimate Spider-Man, you know how we took that show and brought it to the… — Jeph Loeb Copy Share Image
I never root for a failure. I learned that when we were on 'Felicity.' There was a show that failed on the… — Greg Grunberg Copy Share Image
My fear and what I've read and heard, is that lesbians feel like all have long hair, and everyone is too pretty.… — Leisha Hailey Copy Share Image
I am suggesting that we spend a little less time in idleness, in the fruitless pursuit of watching inane and empty television… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I think TV is a fantastic medium right now because of what you can do visually. It's phenomenal, and it's just getting… — Colin Morgan Copy Share Image
Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of… — Fatima Siad Copy Share Image
When we started on 'BoJack,' it was understood that the Netflix model was to give shows time to find an audience, and… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
My character on 'The Good Wife' is a smaller character, and his story arcs are typically season-long, unless it's a big episode… — Graham Phillips Copy Share Image
'Rescue From Gilligan's Island' was the first of the so-called reunion shows on the networks, getting a 54 share. With numbers like… — Sherwood Schwartz Copy Share Image
I want to stick in live television. And I'm hoping to continue on in a second season of Rock Star. Plus, I've… — Brooke Burke Copy Share Image
The thing is I really struggle with commitments, so committing myself to six months to a year in a soap opera... I… — Kelly Brook Copy Share Image
Fans are always talking about endgame as though endgame has been chosen from minute 1. I don't know that you could talk… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
Here's an idea: eat like an adult. Stop eating fast food, stop eating kid's cereal, knock it off with all the sweets… — Dan John Copy Share Image
I am deeply honored that my team is being recognized by H.S.H. Prince Albert II and the Festival de Television de Monte-Carlo… — Anne Sweeney Copy Share Image
It was the White Man who spanned the continents of the world with railroads and super highways and electrical power lines. It… — Ben Klassen Copy Share Image
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