Quotes About Television

I got so excited, just talking about hummus to the Food Network. I feel like you don't see a lot of hummus and challah and shakshuka on the Food Network and that was really the meat of the process.

If you're making a satirical show and you're aiming to change something, I'd say you're on a fool's errand.

A lot of people thought that it was a foolish step to move to television. But for me, it is all about the creative satisfaction I get.

With 'The Big Breakfast', the only way I can describe it is you spend your life jet-lagged, because of the hours. It's so strange, it's like you're a foot behind yourself. Even when you were there, nothing seemed real.

I probably watch less than one hour of television a week. And when I do watch television, it's usually a football game. Sometimes I'll watch a news broadcast for a few minutes. Otherwise, I don't have time.

I love, for example, 'Full Frontal with Sam Bee.' I just love her show.

If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.

I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.

'Forensic Files' is big in our house.

'Getting On' - that show, it broke my heart. It really was like the greatest love of my life. I'm forever changed by it.

Although there were only about 24 episodes made it seems to run forever. They take a couple of episodes and put them together, making a feature film once in a while. I had good fun making the series.

That's what TV has forgotten: how to entertain.

Nobody from Cane Fork ever got on television before.

I've enjoyed the time I've had working on films. I've enjoyed television movie-of-the-week format. I've enjoyed the few comedies that I've done, and I've enjoyed one-hour television.

The anthology format is completely normal to me. That's just how TV works in my experience.

American shows can go on for 20 years. I respond more to the British format. Three seasons is a long run for them to tell a story.

I look forward to 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' every year because the format of the show is really nice - celebrities coming in and competing with each other. The main reason I do it is Madhuri Dixit. I am a big fan, and I sit next to her, so it's like a dream.

I don't know if TV is where I see my format working.

BoJack' is a very much a format-based show. The story should always match the format, but I don't necessarily think the story has to come first.

I came up during the formative years of TV.

Cable news, by its very nature, by its formula, is very guest-heavy.

It's actually just as cool to be on television as to be in a movie, and nobody's ashamed of this back and forth.

Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.

I love television. Television is a great medium; I'm fortunate enough to direct amazing television.