Quotes About Author

I believe in the importance of sincerity and emotion and honesty in TV, even when it's goofy comedy.

There's no less serious thing than making TV, knocking about in cars.

I think I love fiction shows more than the reality shows. I have been offered many shows, but I don't think I am tailored for reality TV.

I grew up in rural Ireland; we only had a few TV channels and had never even heard of sketch shows, but it was completely natural for me to tell jokes and stories.

LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.

I think 'The X-Files' was a very important moment in TV history.

The joy of doing the TV or something like 'Sacrifice' isn't really the process of doing it; the joy is going through this real-life experience.

My focus is films, and 'Angela's Eyes' is one of those TV projects that has some good TV concepts behind it and good writing.

I hate making TV documentaries.

I've been a closet lover of faux-reality TV since 'The Hills'. It's bad.

It's an interesting situation to be in to play a cop on TV and to know so many police officers through our training and our advisors.

My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.

I wanted to be a journalist so the character of a TV news person in 'Run Baby Run' was really interesting.

I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series.

I am a big fan of the TV series 'Taxi' which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen.

I was surprised that the TV series was popular itself, but after that it went on to become more popular over the years and thus it seemed eventually that they would turn it into a movie.

I turned down all the requests for the rights to the books, for years, mostly because they wanted the rights to the characters, and to turn it into a TV series. This would have allowed them to do anything they wanted with the characters, and that just wasn't an option for me.

I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake.

I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.

I actually am grateful for Freddy Krueger, because the big surprise to me - with that sort of double punch of science fiction TV series and then the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' phenomenon - was that I got an international celebrity out of it.

I just haven't had that level of ambition in terms of being a lead in a film or a TV series because I'm really content.

I really love writing, but I am very easily distracted: my two cats fighting, a rainbow, a TV show... I have to use every trick to keep myself at the computer.

My job is summer camp. I come and talk and try to make a TV show funny.

Going out hanging out with the troops, and you know it's kind of all summed up in the TV show, I don't what else I can say about it. It's a great thing to do, something I'm definitely proud of.