Television Quotes

"Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic"

"Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was"

Art Buchwald, Journalist

"It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me"

Meg Tilly, Actress

"He was doing - Ray was designing the clothes for my mom's show from California. And one of the first appearances I ever made on television was on my mother's show and Ray and Bob did the clothes for that. It has been a long time"

Liza Minnelli, Actress

"I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts"

Bille August, Director

"I go to my physical therapist to keep fighting it and one of them told me if you don't use it, you lose it, but I know we're on television so I won't say what I would often say"

Teri Garr, Actress

"I want to bring more gymnastics on television"

Shannon Miller, Athlete

"Television is the triumph of machine over people"

Fred Allen, Comedian

"Television is a medium because anything well done is rare"

Fred Allen, Comedian

"I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself"

Stephen Fry, Comedian

"The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society"

Michael Pollan, Educator

"Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television"

Jhonen Vasquez, Cartoonist

"If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air"

Tabitha Soren, Celebrity

"Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today"

Leonard Maltin, Critic

"Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

"The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me"

John Sayles, Director

"In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies"

David Cronenberg, Director

"It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you"

Camryn Manheim, Actress

"In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way"

Camryn Manheim, Actress

"On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and I've managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

"I just always had a love for television and movies"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

"In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"He seems to want confrontation not only with the legislature and with the other elected officials, but he wants constant confrontation in order to be center stage on the television screen"

Bill Scott, Actor

"Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

"I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

"Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment"

Jacques Ellul, Philosopher

"I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts"

Orson Welles, Actor

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