Quotes About Television

'ER' was so huge that whatever I did coming back to television, I'd have to feel as strongly about.

The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them - they are a business model, run by business people.

I like the sitcom, as a structure.

TV has a three storyline structure, but 'The Killing' takes on that structure with such ambition.

Television became defensible - and, frankly, worshipped - because the shows started to be so carefully structured, so attentive to language, and so visually interesting that they suddenly caught people's eye.

If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.

Society is notoriously stupid in its failure to harness the wisdom of older women in everything from television to politics, family life to boardrooms, and here is one reminiscing with honesty and realism about women's particular challenge: to create our professional and financial structures in the same period as our peak fertility.

Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone.

It's because of 'ER' that I've gotten the opportunity to get the work.

I feel like we need to create more roles that give LGBTQ people the opportunity to be on screen.

It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.

In television writing, you want to hear what the characters say as opposed to giving them something to say. It's the same with the cartoons.

I wanted to stay on TV because I've got kids who are school-aged, so I get to see them most days as opposed to going away for movies months and months at a time.

Television has been really good to me in terms of the roles I've been able to get on TV as opposed to the roles I've gotten in film and in theater.

When you consume a half hour or an hour of television, you can talk about what happened as opposed to consuming ten hours of content, and then you don't remember everything you want to talk about.

I've been on 'Oprah' a dozen times, and cried once.

I got the famous Oprah hug!

I grew up watching Oprah on television. So, to say I didn't learn a lot from her just wouldn't be true.

Oprah was famous for going to a garden party and ad-libbing. She could literally interview people for a half hour about nothing, and it was entertaining. She had her own show before she had her own show.

As a little kid, I would watch Oprah almost every day.

I would love to be on Oprah or Larry King.

I think there's a lot of interesting stuff on TV. I feel much more optimistic about TV than I do about movies. There will always be good movies but I think, for the most part, it's always going to be a huge fight to get those movies made. TV is the best place to be as a writer, I think.

Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.

Multi-camera's fun because you have the immediacy of the audience and just being able to tell the story more or less straight through. The thing I like about single-camera is that you have the luxury of shooting a lot of different options.