Quotes About Industry

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

I left 'The Bob Newhart Show,' which was my decision. CBS wanted it to go on. But I could see television changing; I could see the tastes were changing.

The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming.

'Profit' in my mind is as good as television gets, and if that didn't make it, all bets are off on really predicting what's going to work and what's not.

I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.

Like anyone else in television, I like to explore my life experience. And I don't think African-American artists see doing shows or art about African-Americans as something 'less than.' I think maybe the industry sometimes does. We don't get as much attention, we don't get critical acclaim and so on.

I don't have many friends in the television industry, as I am an introvert who likes her own set of friends. I also don't plan for the future and believe in living for the moment.

I wanted to send a message to the television industry that excitement is not made of car chases.

Television is a producers' medium. There is a formula with a certain number of closeups for each show.

It wasn't always easy at times, having grown up on television and being in the entertainment industry.

After finishing my study in Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), I was mentally prepared for the struggle in the film industry.

It's not that I'm knocking the movie and television work.

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

I'm very happy, safe, and secure with television industry. I'm not over-ambitious.

I've never been on a television show as a regular before.

Not many people get to create a television show that actually makes it on the air.

I am lucky to be part of a 'Kyunki.' Not every actor gets a chance to be part of a successful television show.

I have respect for anyone who helps a creator put a great television show on the air.

For the most part, Hollywood is very transactional. People want to make movies and television shows.

Telling people that I wanted to make dance music, or be on the radio, they looked at me like I was crazy because there was nothing like that in Lichtenstein when I was getting started. That's why I went to Germany, because there is industry there.

My management tells me, Don't be optimistic, because it's the young people's world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you're a classic rocker. I don't know if you're gonna get the play.

Optimization tells us precisely how to diversify the portfolio, whether I should have 12% in semiconductors or 4% in biotech, etc., and it literally tells me how to diversify not only the industry groups but the stocks.

No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.