Quotes About Author

I started modelling while still studying. I liked doing television commercials and being in front of the camera. Lots of ad directors told me to try for films.

Swayamvar' is one of the most anticipated and sought after shows on television and I am elated to be a part of it.

With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.

Directing the television serial, 'Thoda Sa Aasman,' was a good learning experience and I can empathize better with producers.

Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television.

'Doctor Who' is not as literary as 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' is - books have come out, but they are from the television episodes. So there is that difference... it's more scholastic.

If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.

I'm accused by many people of being the most serious man on television.

I have never had a lap dance in Tampa or any other part of Florida. If I ever did have a lap dance, I don't think I would be discussing television ideas with the girl that was giving it to me.

It is genuinely shocking to me that I'm on a television show.

I also had a hosting position on a home and garden television show - which is a joke if you ever see my apartment.

To David Lynch, any film or television show should be life casting a shadow.

Every generation has their favorite Spider-Man television show. For a lot of us, it's the one that has the song, 'Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can.'

I completely understand why labels would be a little bit hesitant to sign somebody coming off of a television show, in their first glance.

'Doctor Who' is the most original science-fiction television series ever made. It is also one of the longest-running television shows of all time.

'Psych' was so many different things, and they evolved in so many different ways over the years, and towards the end there, we were barely solving mysteries anymore. We were just paying homage to our favorite movies, television shows, and bringing through as many '80s icons as we possibly could.

I am not a qualified historian, but rather a teller of stories from history.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

Part of the job is knowing how to use this medium in the most effective way for the story you're telling, so for me, to pick a genre I want to do is a little harder. I would say it's more about thinking, 'What genre will work for what kind of story?' And then, when all of that comes, I embrace it and run with it.

I have a very good sense of humour. I love telling jokes, especially on the golf course.

Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situation as political as South Africa, you get to be political.

I remember telling people I booked this job; they were like, 'What is it called?' I was like, 'Peaky Blinders,' and they were like, 'What?' It sounds ridiculous, but I like it because there's an instant intrigue about the name.

I'm telling you, every film I've ever made has been hated by the U.K. critics.

I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.