Quotes About Television

I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.

I got the feeling: It's time to do a Marco Polo story. I felt like everything was lining up right because long-form television series were becoming to me like the new great American novel.

I've said on one of my shows that I'd like to marry the character Amy Pond, not the actress who plays her.

I think 'Westworld' and 'Hap and Leonard' are two of the greatest things that you can do with this oversized pool of the television medium.

There are always ridiculous things on television or on the Internet that make people go, 'Did you see that?' That could be anything from a clip from the 'Real Housewives' to someone jumping off their roof and missing the pool to a zillion other things.

Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.

The Bachelor' has always been a great show that embraces what's happening in the world and embraces pop culture.

The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city.

I have to accept the fact that the time I was on, 'Project Runway' was already becoming a pop culture phenomenon.

I'm fairly out of the loop when it comes to pop culture.

I must point out - Sarah Jessica Parker is not a diva - she's one of these pop culture characters that everybody likes.

The NFL is part of the pop culture landscape, so sports fans don't bat an eye when you stop in the middle of a piece to talk about a new movie.

Through eight years, 'How I Met Your Mother' has mastered the art of leading-edge comedy, emotional water-cooler moments, and pop culture catch-phrases.

If somebody can make a joke about you on TV, that's so beautiful. You've affected pop culture to that degree.

I have to do popcorn for movies. I can do more important things for television. You're going down when you're making a movie, not going up.

So if you see me popping up on 'Cats Does Countdown,' you know Kath needs a bit of money.

The perception that if you're not on 'Top Of The Pops' you're dead and buried is a good one for pop music, because 'TOTP' is a catalyst or barometer for pop success.

Top Of The Pops' was the show to be on. Youd go in in the afternoon, re-record the track for them, and then youd mime to the track that you cut that afternoon.

Television is much more difficult because at every moment the network can force you to change things based on their belief about what would make it popular. You're in a constant debate with a gun at your head, and the gun is cancellation. So it's hard to win the arguments.

Crime shows are really popular, in general, but usually, at the end of every episode, you have to let go of the people that you've invested in and then, the next week, get somebody else.

I was young enough to certainly realize the excitement of how popular 'Seinfeld' was.

Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything is either black or white.

I like to think that I'm a populist entertainer, but I'm a little bit idiosyncratic, and sometimes the networks wouldn't really roll with that.

Hindi news is much more determinedly populist and lowbrow than the English channels.