I remember lying on the floor of my room, staring at a black-and-white television for most of the '80s - watching 'Diff'rent… — Jim Rash Copy Share Image
“How can even the idea of rebellion against corporate culture stay meaningful when Chrysler Inc. advertises trucks by invoking “The Dodge Rebellion”?… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
'24' is a pretty serious show - there isn't a lot of improv that is happening. Having said that, I do play… — Mary Lynn Rajskub Copy Share Image
I've spent over 25 years in the television industry, the direct response industry. I met a lot of people and certainly learned… — Kevin Harrington Copy Share Image
I landed a job at HBO, working for two years on the 'The Alzheimer's Project,' which aired in May 2009. I was… — Matthew Heineman Copy Share Image
With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the prestige of being an anchor is not… — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
We make programming decisions on a day-to-day basis. We sell advertising on a day-to-day basis. This is the way networks operate. This… — Mark E. Hyman Copy Share Image
I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
I try to get away. It's very unusual for me to be in one spot for so many months, which is one… — Stana Katic Copy Share Image
It is with enormous regret that I have decided to leave Wish You Were Here?' after two very happy years as its… — Mary Nightingale Copy Share Image
Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
When I'm on television, I'm talking to millions of people, so the conversation is totally different. My words are different. My diction… — Keyshawn Johnson Copy Share Image
I'd watched every episode of 'True Blood' from the very beginning. The show's characters were in my blood, so when I started,… — Robert Kazinsky Copy Share Image
As for the industry, it has certainly changed. I think with all of these television shows and YouTube and the internet, you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
We get a successful television series or something, and next season they give you less time and less money, which is something… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me. Everything I've done ends up working in my favor. Even when I make… — David Hasselhoff Copy Share Image
Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking… — Ellen Galinsky Copy Share Image
So it took me five years because in the interim I have been doing a lot of personal appearances and movies and… — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
I so often doubt how much people on television believe what they're saying. They're playing roles for think tanks or political parties… — Morgan Neville Copy Share Image
To a certain degree, with a TV show, people are looking for a certain amount of familiarity. You don't want to pull… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Oh, you're in television! That's interesting. No, I mean, the word television is interesting. It's a hybrid, you see: tele- comes from… — Graham Chapman Copy Share Image
I don't see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It's absolutely the same. It's different storytelling, playing… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I first felt the addictive power of 'Game of Thrones' when I was prime minister, living in a world where power was… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I… — Marcy Kaptur Copy Share Image
In the back of my mind was the nagging discussion: where do we take the portfolio? You can get rid of TV,… — Frans van Houten Copy Share Image
The average American child sees 20,000 murders in TV before reaching age 18. This is considered normal. Every community has video rental… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
In television and films, you never know the fate of anything. Focusing on the present moment - not getting so caught up… — Christine Evangelista Copy Share Image
In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
The joke of being a showrunner is that people ask how you get it all done, and you don't. The list of… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
I love 'Sons of Anarchy.' I was so excited to be able to be on this show, just because I personally watch… — Ashley Tisdale Copy Share Image
Think of it: television producers joining with newspapers to tell stories. It's journalism of the future. Advertising will follow the crowd -… — Bill Kurtis Copy Share Image
Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I told my parents I wanted to be an actress years before I wrapped my head around what my dad did for… — Allison Williams Copy Share Image
In real life, nothing would be more tedious than trailing around after two strangers as they went house-hunting in Hertfordshire. But for… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
I had a bumper sticker on my car for a long time that said, "Kill your television." People helpfully pointed out that… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
Essentially, we can once again have the whole American public know that any time in the weekend they need not be alone… — Pat Weaver Copy Share Image
