Quotes About Television

Cinder's fate, thanks to Dr. MacElroy, was not so bleak. In fact, she was slated to be a working cat, an actress, so you may have seen her on movie and television screens, though the big cats rarely get decent credits. She may one day play the part of a lovable pet, and you may be moved to want a leopard. Don't do that. Leave the big cats alone.

I don't know how people feel,that's the beauty of TV, is they can see us, but we can't see them.

I watch Pretty Little Liars with my best friend Telly. We go to each other's houses when it airs and we watch it.

The Simpsons is the best thing on American television.

The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.

The best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly.

I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.

The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.

It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

Television is a service, but it's also a business.

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

The TV business is soul-crushing, talent-destroying and human being-destroying.

Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.

Television isn't my career. Business is.

My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.

These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.

I'd hate to say, if I wasn't running, the television networks would be doing less than half the business.

I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.

Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now.

All my shows are great. Some of them are bad. But they are all great.