Quotes About Television

The writer is just so much more intimately involved in the television process than the feature film process.

Television, cable, features are always out there.

There are, in terms of numbers, more leading roles for women in television than there are features. That's absolutely certain.

Aging on camera is just very hard. I love my age. I feel good about myself but high definition television is not kind. You don't even look like yourself in high-def. It just makes every little line on your face more exaggerated so it ends up aging you. It's like you're watching yourself seven years older.

Cruising' is feel good TV.

I'd like to be on the next 'Six Feet Under,' whatever that is.

Normal television limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it.

There's a female writer-performer thing going on in TV right now.

Often, female characters are quite one dimensional, especially in a two hour film; television gives characters room to breathe and develop.

I spent seven seasons on 'Mad Men,' playing what became considered a very feminist character.

I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh.

I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh. It's almost too funny to get an award.

There are fewer and fewer roles that I haven't done already, or archetypes that I haven't played, and to break out of that box, the most interesting stuff is television.

Television can be a very fickle place.

I think that Miley is getting a chance to be who she really is, after years of having to be a fictional character on TV.

I have like fifteen televisions in my house.

The director could start shooting the fifth scene first. So while giving take for the scene I need to know what I am expected to do in the first four scenes. Sometimes it gets quite confusing and on television you never know when the channel will change the story or dump the character!

One of the major demographic shares of people who watch 'Girls' are men in their fifties. Fathers watch it, maybe trying to figure out how to keep up with their 20-something daughters.

We get along really well, but TV and film aren't reality. We're best friends, but we do have our fights!

Let's go back to super-fights. Let's put on fights that are great live or on television.

The job at broadcast is to figure out what the dumbest person in the room is going to think. That's not the case at FX.

I don't watch scripted television, and I finally figured out why. It's my line of work, you know? It's what I do.

Shonda Rhimes has figured it out, of getting multiracial casts on television and appealing to everybody.

When you're with a big TV channel, there's a sense of having to behave in a certain way in order to get audience figures.