Television Quotes

"I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate"

"Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room"

"My dignity and good television - they'll never meet"

"We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore"

"I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television"

"Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds"

"Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very happy for people to focus on them"

"As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place"

"I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard"

"There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?"

"Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies"

"If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck"

"We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television"

"I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week"

"When I came to England at the very beginning of commercial television it was easy for me because I was only doing one or two shows a week at most. It was really a holiday"

"I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was just no one else to do it and what I didn't realise and what people don't understand now about television is that we used to do about five shows a day"