Quotes About Viewing

I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.

I remember when I made 'A Scanner Darkly,' going, 'I hope people see it in theater - but I think it's going to be seen in someone's room at two in the morning.' It's that kind of movie. And I would have loved if it had been available on multiple formats at the moment it opened.

Not all movies are movies you want to spend $14 on - and not all movies are movies you want to spend $10 on for ultra VOD, or even $6.99 on renting.

We can watch only so many reality shows filmed in L.A. It gets boring and repetitive.

I record the following shows on a daily basis and watch them when I have the time/inclination: 'The Daily Show,' Rachel Maddow, 'Hardball,' 'The Colbert Report,' 'The O'Reilly Factor,' David Letterman.

My DVR says that I watch a lot of TV my husband likes.

I've got 'Lost' and '24' on TiVo. And I'm an 'American Idol' fan.

In fact, I don't watch any fiction shows.

Television has always been something you watch; now, increasingly, it is also something you do.

This is when I let each girl in on secret: It can be yours. No different from falling in love with a song, one may fall in love with a work of art and claim it as one's own. Ownership does not come free. One must spend time with it; visit at different times of the day or evening; and bring to it one's full attention. The investment will be repaid as one discovers something new with each viewing... [...] Stay awhile. Spend some time with it. Give it a proper name: Yours.

I don't like to eat when I watch films because it distracts me. Anything crunchy or in a wrapper is terrible.

I started as a short filmmaker and found that one of the toughest challenges was getting your film to be watched. I would enter it in competitions and release it online, but getting a mainstream theatre-going audience to view the film is difficult.

I'm a huge television fan, in general. I love TV. I love movies. I always have. It's what I do, and I love it.

Oh, yeah, I love DVD's. I don't have what you'd call an extensive collection, maybe a couple of hundred or so. But I have something on almost all the time.

On the one hand the purposes of the community are enforced upon the individual, and, on the other hand the individual, having acquired the habit of viewing his life as a whole, increasingly sacrifices his present to his future.

I got really into 'North of 60,' and I'll still watch reruns of 'Da Vinci's Inquest.'

Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you you'll have a decision to make when it comes to television, especially with what you watch.

The jury, having swallowed at one nauseating gulp the business of viewing the body, had settled into their places with that air of conscious importance and simulated modesty which belongs to those initiated into a mystery.

The interesting thing to me is that somehow the future of movies will become a more social thing... I think that people will see them communally and will be talking about them as they're watching them, in a way, and immediately after watching them, and they'll all become the conversation. I think that's pretty interesting.

He flipped the channels because there were a lot of commercials on and because he was male.

To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

My family watches all the time. They actually love the WWE. They don't just follow my matches: they watch it all.

After 25 years in the profession, I have understood that being a reader or viewer is a task of great responsibility.