Quotes About TV

'Game of Thrones' is one of the most groundbreaking series on TV. The fact that I get to make music every day is such a privilege, and I'm incredibly grateful to be doing so with an amazing show such as this.

I consider myself a prize fighter going into a very, very tough ring called daytime TV, and I take it very seriously.

Growing up, my family wasn't really into sports, so we didn't really watch sports, and then one day I stumbled across the TV: pro wrestling.

TV has gotten perhaps better than your average film script, but at the same time, it's fun to give it all you've got for a few months and produce a story.

I'm really obsessed with this show right now called 'Power,' produced by 50 Cent.

I've been in various roles in TV - writer, producer, associate director.

I do media work but I don't do broadcast on TV. I'm a content producer and creator, so I just go out there and produce awesome content.

Music TV in the U.K. is disappearing. 'Top Of The Pops,' 'CD:UK' and shows like that have gone, and it's bringing down the music industry. We should do as much as we can to keep our music TV and producers need to be more willing to accommodate live music.

Some of the closest friends you make in TV are the producers who travel on field assignments with you - you're together 24/7.

Hollywood's best producers and directors are in film, not TV.

Yeah, I'm doing some stuff behind the camera. Producing and directing. I feel like my face has been on TV enough in my lifetime that people don't need to see me like that anymore.

In TV, you're basically shooting an episode in 10 to 14 days; 14 days is a luxury situation. And in film, you have anywhere from a month to three months, or it can be even longer than that, depending on what the production is.

L.A. has great business opportunities for my film and TV production company and acting career, but it can be a very lonely place.

Apart from my film, I am producing TV serials and plan to make more films, too. Mine is not going to be one-film-a-year production company as such.

Passyunk Productions is our film & tv production company. The name comes from a street in Philly, Passyunk Avenue, where the concept of The Roots was born, as Ahmir and I started out busking on the corner of 5th & Passyunk back in the early '90s.

As far as doing TV, I do think there's a big audience out there that could enjoy classical music, but they don't know how to find it, and sometimes by doing different things... crossover things probably make up about 5% of what I do.

There are many different ways the public can respond to actors - they can see you on TV and feel they know you and own you, and there can be something quite cornering about that.

I really like 'Come Dine With Me' and 'Eating With My Ex.' Both shows have my two favourite things: people and food.

I would have a problem directing a scene like most directors do, in that TV style. I would get bored, I don't enjoy editing in the classic way.

I feel terrible for directors of TV because all the episodes have to look the same. They make a great series for five or six years, and then when it's canceled, they can't break out on their own.

It doesn't make any sense for us to do a scripted series if it's not going to be big, so we have to be really disciplined about them.

Anything that's on Discovery or Nat Geo, I'm pretty much watching it.

My main concern is my kids. And I don't want them to see or hear anything on TV that I didn't discuss with them.

In every writers' room I've been in, the first 15-20 minutes of the day are spent discussing water cooler moments from last night's big shows.