Quotes About TV

I'm sorry that 'Fringe' is gone. I really wanted to do more on that show. It was great!

I haven't ever seen 'Lost'... I'm sorry.

We knew Chris Matthews had no shame. Now we also know the king of TV ghouls has no souls.

There's times when I'll see a show, or something cooking on TV, and think, 'That can really be fun when it's working.' But it's a grind. I did that at NBC, it was five days a week. I was doing 'Talk Soup' and 'Later' at the same time. It's a hard job, more difficult than people realize.

As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.

In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.

TV can make me ill in five minutes, but I can look at an animal for hours and find nothing but grace and glory, life as it should be.

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If he's serious about turning, I can probably walk him through the process using the tablet as a teaching tool: damn Alex for inventing such an easy-to-understand visualization. If you could broadcast it over a TV channel … my blood runs cold at the thought.)

There are all sorts of other things, investigations into silent movies and TV serials (I pulled the file on "Quatermass" for shits and giggles—strictly speaking not germane to the project in hand, but I'd hit burn-out by that point and badly needed some relief reading that wasn't the eleventh Harry Dresden novel).

I rewind the TV every two minutes. If someone does something interesting, I have to see it over and over again.

'The Miracle Workers' was the first time I've been on a big American TV set, so that felt very epic.

The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '60s, and '70s, writers were on TV a lot, and they were allowed to misbehave a lot.

'Misfits' is one of my favorite shows; I think it's a fantastic show.

I don't miss 'EastEnders.' I did a two-stretch. That was enough.

Sometimes being away from TV for four months or six months or whatever it's been can really help you. People miss you and are happy to see you back. On the other hand, people can forget about you.

It might be a little embarrassing, but I never ever missed an episode of 'Dawson's Creek' growing up.

For me, the fans missing me and wanting to see me on TV is very important, but the business end of it also has to be right.

I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting roles for women, in TV or film or in theater. I think that's like my 'Blues Brothers' mission.

TV is a cruel mistress; you can't afford to fail in any way.

With 'Sharknado,' they've got a great mix of TV and film. This is a film that has film impact in the TV medium.

As for my role models... you know, I'm an immigrant, so we didn't grow up with too much TV. My parents were like, 'You must read your books.'

I love 'Sherlock.' I love 'Modern Family.'

I loved TV, and I watched anything with music - 'Hee Haw,' 'Happy Days,' anything like that. So I loved the Monkees.