Quotes About Television

After college, I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director.

Theatre is done largely for the love of the craft. Television makes you famous. And films immortalize you. That's the relationship between the three.

People are trying to figure out how to pay bills and make ends meet. They don't want to turn on the TV and say, 'What is this crap?'

I'm crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I wouldn't know how to write an episode of it.

TV creates good viewership because it generates interest by being entertaining.

People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up.

Every time I watched my acting on 'Dynasty,' I cringed. Creatively, I felt stifled.

I would be sad if it ended now. It's been the best job I've had by a long shot, especially creatively because the writing is so good. Every week I get the script and I laugh out loud and get excited for the different stuff we get to do.

I've never worked for a show or was on a show where I didn't have a lot of control creatively, but then again, I haven't worked on a lot of shows.

The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand.

Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.

'Mad Men' is the greatest example of a perfect cast uniting with a perfect group of writers and creators to create a show that is bold, brutal, and brilliant.

When you become a television personality, it's difficult to maintain your musical credibility.

Basically what they're saying is, if you want to be on TV, if you want to be a credible candidate, you've got to buy ads. And if you're not buying ads, you're not a credible candidate, we don't cover you.

I'm the only person in the entire world who has never see 'Dawson's Creek.'

My mom actually would not allow me to watch 'Dawson's Creek!'

Channel 4 are a great bunch of people to work with and the crew are lovely. Working at ITV was like being in the court of Caligula.

All those Bob Hope specials made me cringe when I was a kid.

I cringe when I watch myself on TV.

I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.

So many of our enormous emotional crises are lived through the media. They're lived through movies; they're lived through what we watch on television - they're not actual events in our life.

If bingeing on bad emergency-room-themed television has taught me anything, it's that crisis situations bring out the best and worst in people.

I wanted a half-hour, single-camera comedy with a great lead where I could be No. 2 or 3 on the call sheet, and it was going to get on the air. Those were my criteria, and they sent me 'Cougar Town.' I read it and loved it.

Except for a few episodes, I have not watched any of my shows. I don't think I like to watch myself on TV. I get very critical about what I am saying.