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Quotes About TV

One of the really nice things about having the time to do a movie is that you can fine tune it. With TV, you really need A-level people to make a good TV show because it's moving so fast.
~ Joel Surnow
TV show is always challenging. It's challenging when you have all of the time and money in the world, and it's more challenging when you have less money.
~ Joseph McGinty Nichol
My kids - even though it's a family business - they don't even know what day or time 'Survivor' is even on. They just know it's on TiVo.
~ Mark Burnett
I'm not a teen anymore, but growing up, some of my favorite things were, like, 'Twin Peaks, ' which wasn't even really my time, and this is one of the things, like a weird, quirky, small town mystery.
~ Troian Bellisario
You never know in TV - sometimes you're on at the wrong time at the wrong place. Sometimes you don't get a chance to catch on.
~ Larry Wilmore
If family decline didn't exist, reality TV would have to invent it.
~ Mary Eberstadt
The best I ever got was that woman who kept having me come up to fix her TV. There was a lot of bending involved. I felt used and dirty. It's the price you pay for being one of those weedy but good-looking types, Scarlett said. Weedy? You hurt me. I prefer tall and scrawny. Unlike my partner, who's right behind you.
~ Maureen Johnson
She spent the entire day at the house, debating the issue with herself. First, she watched TV. British television seemed to consist mostly of makeover shows. Garden makeovers. Fashion makeovers. House makeovers. Everything relating to change. It seemed like a hint. Change something. Make a move. She
~ Maureen Johnson
Your scientists have done studies with people connected to an EEG brain-scanning device while watching TV; they registered activity in the delta wave frequencies, essentially occupying a highly programmable sleep state while viewing TV.
~ Barbara Marciniak
Music matters," he told me once. "Pop fiction goes away, TV shows go away, and I defy you to tell me what you saw at the movies two years ago. But music lasts, even pop music. Especially pop music. Sneer at 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head' if you want to, but people will still be listening to that silly piece of shit fifty
~ Stephen King
The TV is showing another of those reality things, a program that pimps a bunch of good-looking young women to a hunky bachelor who looks like he might have the IQ of a floor lamp.
~ Stephen King
A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.
~ Steve Martin
For every extra year a young person was exposed to TV in his first 15 years, we see a 4 percent increase in the number of property-crime arrests later in life and a 2 percent increase in violent-crime arrests.
~ Steven D. Levitt
A movement unlocked my attention. I re-focused my eyes, looking past the vodka glass and into the static buzz of the TV. I stayed very still for a few seconds before lowering the glass to the floor, careful not to take my eyes off the screen. There was something distant and alive in the depths of the white noise - a living glide of thoughts swimming forward, a moving body of concepts and half felt images.
~ Steven Hall
I'm definitely curious. I love pop culture. I'm glued to it. I can watch garbage TV, but then I can also watch great theater.
~ Michael Kors
There's not enough psychedelic stuff on TV. I want the world to be a bit weirder than it is. I hate reality, so I hate reality TV. But I love Columbo.
~ Noel Fielding
I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
~ Victoria Justice
Smallville' was my first love and it is always close to my heart.
~ Erica Durance
I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.
~ David Schwimmer
Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.
~ Lauryn Hill
I'm not a big TV watcher, but I know that Discovery is a teaching network. And they've been so awesome to me, I love those people.
~ Paul Brown
In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV.
~ Erma Bombeck
That there was nothing so wrong in the world that we couldn't sort it out by the end of a single half-hour episode (or maybe a two-parter, if it was something really serious).
~ Ernest Cline
Maybe they seeded life on Earth millions of years ago, and now they're here to punish us for turning out to be such a lame species and inventing reality TV and shit?
~ Ernest Cline