Quotes About TV

Reality in America is heavily scripted, very edited, and they have a say in what goes on TV and what doesn't.

Well, we had more money and more time the first season than we did at TV 23.

I've never been on a show that's run for more than a season.

We kind of owe everything to 'Byker Grove.' It's where we learnt to do what we do.

I owe my career to TV. Most of my training has been through TV.

It will be very wrong on my part to say that I don't want to do TV. I owe my career to TV.

When I'm angry on TV, I'm actually not. I'm manipulating you as an owner.

In features, we're languid: we shoot one or two scenes over, like, three days. In TV, the pace is so different. You're shooting ten scenes a day, going way into the future or way back into the past. It's complete madness, and I'm just trying to keep up with this really electric pace.

I'd had the theater background for so long that I know that world inside out; I just didn't know the pace of how a TV set works, like how a show shoots.

I love doing TV. It's such a breakneck pace, you know. It's kiss and go with your leading man. You meet them in the morning and go right into a clinch. The filming is over before you know their last names.

Alexis and I actually shot the very first scene of 'Gilmore Girls.' What I thought was fast was nowhere near what has become known as 'Gilmore pace.'

In writing on the page, you can be a bit elliptical, but on TV, you can't dance around stuff. You either show it, or you don't.

You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.

My wife - I married my onscreen girlfriend from 'Growing Pains', Mike Seaver's girlfriend, and we've been married for 17 years - so marriage is very important to us.

The content on Pakistani TV is good; their shows are natural and real.

Getting a TV in my bedroom was something that I decided to do five months into the pandemic because I was finally, like, You know what? I might as well make my apartment feel like a hotel room.

There aren't many opportunities to be a comedian on TV anymore, it's a lot of panel shows. You don't get much stand-up.

When I didn't work on TV, that was OK because I was doing lots of theatre but I did begin to panic a bit.

I think the media makes it tough to play in New York. There are so many papers and TV channels covering the Knicks and the expectations for the Knicks are so high.

I would direct TV. That's a little different. It's more of a contained world as a director. When you're doing a film you get on the rollercoaster, you put the safety bar down and then you're gone. And it's hard. It's hard, too, as a parent, I think, because the hours are so long. It's hard.

There's a lot of progress happening in TV. You have amazing shows like 'How to Get Away With Murder.' You have people like Shonda Rhimes, Lee Daniels with 'Empire,' and Jason Katims with 'Friday Night Lights' and 'Parenthood.' You have people behind the scenes writing complex women.

It's going to sound like brown-nosing, but I love 'Parks & Rec.'

I've gone through my adolescence on TV so it's pretty cringey when I look back on some pictures and scenes, but that's part and parcel of being a child actor and growing up.

When I started doing projects for TV, I made sure to participate in the brainstorming sessions.