I directed the next-to-last episode of 'Parenthood.' I wrote three of the four last episodes. I had the cast to my house.… — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I wish I had more control, more like Edgar Rice Burroughs had, but I'm a realist, too. I work in television. I… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
I remember one day my son, our Robert, was looking at me on the settee and looking at me on the television,… — Cilla Black Copy Share Image
It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play,… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
It's always exciting when you work on a show that's written by one person because you know that their vision is so… — Jessalyn Gilsig Copy Share Image
I think you need to understand games to write them. There's a learning curve, just like there's a learning curve in anything.… — Bruce Feirstein Copy Share Image
I guess show business is a lot like baseball: "Wait until next year!" You just never know. Some of the shittiest shows… — Kurt Fuller Copy Share Image
Drama's not safe and it's not pretty and it's not kind. People expect the basic template of television drama where there might… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
I don't get people baring their lives on television. Maybe it makes other people feel better about themselves. Is that what it… — Vicki Lawrence Copy Share Image
Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Now we live in this DVD, iTunes, Hulu age, and show creators and networks are realizing that and letting shows develop on… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don't they call somebody in… — Trisha Goddard Copy Share Image
That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In terms of television and movies, I've been really interested in seeing the partnership of comedy and beauty and heart. I think… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
People relate to things that feel real to them. All the good, happy, over-sexed and moneyed endings on TV are not the… — Anthony Edwards Copy Share Image
I remember once saying in a television interview that the only things I hadn't been in were the opera and the ballet.… — Donald Sinden Copy Share Image
ABC's intelligently hilarious sitcom 'Modern Family' depicts a gay-male marriage in which both partners are refreshingly dimensional, believable human beings. The writers… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
People pay their licence fee in this country because people believe that we should have public service broadcast programming. Of course, there… — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
I would not even attempt to do a history of world television. I did a half dozen years where I was a… — David Bianculli Copy Share Image
Human beings need stories, and we're looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it's television, whether it's comic books or… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing—too much undisciplined leisure time… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
If 'Buffy' the movie was the true love of my childhood, 'Buffy' the series quickly became the true love of my teenage… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
Game of Thrones' is a fantasy show not dedicated to any specific time, but it seems to exist in sort of a… — Gwendoline Christie Copy Share Image
If there's no magic of cinema, you only have the plain imagery of television. We are moving more and more towards a… — Laszlo Nemes Copy Share Image
Crime shows are really popular, in general, but usually, at the end of every episode, you have to let go of the… — Mireille Enos Copy Share Image
No-one tells you about being in episodic television and it ending. No-one tells you how painful it is. How bizarre it is… — Zawe Ashton Copy Share Image
Every night, I'm like, 'Where's the party?' and then it cuts to me on the couch with the remote control watching repeats… — Jennifer Damiano Copy Share Image
There's reality shows and things like that and I think 'Parenthood''s kind of a throwback to what we used to have back… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
It took me a long time to understand not to get caught up in other people's expectations. It really comes down to… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I went to network on a handful of pilots, and going to network is the most stressful situation anybody can ever be… — Andy Dick Copy Share Image
When they don't have your back on a show, it's the worst feeling ever. That energy trickles down to the cast and… — Jamie Chung Copy Share Image
I find it difficult to remember lines. When I'm doing a long speech for television, I sometimes have an earpiece with someone… — Michael Gambon Copy Share Image
You can say that all you want, but even in the little time that I've been in this industry, I've learned that… — Steven Yeun Copy Share Image
I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided… — Scott Bakula Copy Share Image
Dreams are more original than images we see in the media, and are surprisingly unaffected by media. For example, the average person… — Charles McPhee Copy Share Image
Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
