Quotes About Engagement

The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become.

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

It just seems there's better things to do in your life than be on television if it's not interesting, if it's not challenging, if it's not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I'll stop making television.

If you're a singer, you do concerts, and you get that interaction with fans and see what cities in what part of the world come out to see you. When you're on television, you're removed from that.

I enjoy working on a series and having a long stretch of time to get to know and connect with my cast and crew. It also gives me the ability to play a character over the span of countless hours of television.

To be perfectly honest, I follow football the way I follow television. I read about it.

People around the world get to get a sense of who you are through reality television. They are so engaged with you that if they love you, they will support you for life.

I'm very selective about television because you sign away so much of your life to it.

I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person.

When I was in meditation, God began to speak to me, and God said, 'Roland, I have enough preachers. I need people where you are in your positions. When you are on radio, when you are on television, you speak into more people in the five minutes than some preachers speak to in an entire year.'

I'll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they're about, how they work. When the main character is a cop or a spy, it's very exciting, but I also very much enjoy when the main characters are nobodies - a trucker.

Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters.

My fantasy for children's television is that it's not really children's television, it's everybody's television.

You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.

It's a strange thing to have a successful television show because if it's too interesting... people don't really pay attention when they watch TV. It has to be good, but not so interesting that you really have to pay attention because people multitask. So, if a show demands your entire attention, it has a tough time making it.

'Looking' is more than just a television show. It's contributing to the cultural conversation, and for me, those are the most exciting projects to be a part of.

All I want out of a television show is that I be intrigued and entertained.

It's not enough just to put great television shows out anymore.

You used to have those Saturday morning television shows. You had to do your bit. You had to go on and promote your new release. I quite enjoyed it, actually. You had the parents watching them, and they must have liked what they were seeing, so they'd encourage their kids. And then they'd end up bringing them to the shows.

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

I do really long DJ sets - I play for five or six hours sometimes - but the live shows are a bit more compact. The arch of how to tell a story, where the energy is, where you have peaks and drops, where things go up and things come down, that's all being informed by DJ-ing.

The dreaded phrase in design circles is 'show and tell.'

I have jokes I've told before and will tell again, but my favorite part of the night is talking to the crowd.

I don't think shoving my butt into people's faces will tell them anything about who I am. How is that connecting to your audience? What is that doing for your music?