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The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.
I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
As incredible as television has become, it often feels like a sideshow in what has become a daily three-ring media circus.
I have respect for anyone who helps a creator put a great television show on the air.
Anyone who magnifies the power of a television talk show is very unrealistic.
My feeling is talk shows have not kept pace with the breakthroughs and changes in format in television generally.
Before television, there was a piano in many homes in this country. People played instruments on an amateur level and because of that, they became informed amateurs. We've lost that.
There's something inherently life-denying in television and radio and stuff that's canned.
It wasn't until I got involved in 'Doctor Who' that I started doing dramas on television.
The interest in character-driven content over narrative-driven ditto is increasing; that's why television steps in. Personally, I love it, since psychology and character, really, are my beacons.
Regardless of the medium, be it television or feature or documentary, I'm not gonna distinguish and worry about my particular canon, whatever that means.
Television is a very highly constructed, and edited, and censored, and tailored, and marketed reality. But I'm not judgemental about it. I don't have anything against television. I just personally don't feel curious.
I believe what makes great television is wanting to watch particular characters.
I don't get tons of scripts to be looking at and deciding on in terms of feature films; the industry has changed. Fortunately, with television and streaming and original series online, there's this whole new thing that has opened up, which I think is fantastic.
I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.
If there's ever going to be a challenge for an actor, it's that character who's often evolving - which is not often the case in television.
Our television transmitters leak out from the Earth. And actually, there's a sphere surrounding the Earth from the earliest television signals, maybe 70 years ago, that's going out one light year per year. But it's really weak.
We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.
When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family.
'Doctor Who' is the most original science-fiction television series ever made. It is also one of the longest-running television shows of all time.
'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it.
With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the prestige of being an anchor is not what it was in the days of Walter Cronkite.
But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television.
Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I realized I was interested in plays. I never imagined myself on television. I was so lucky to be onstage my whole life.
I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.
When I started as a filmmaker, I never, ever imagined in a million years that I would be doing television because, at that time, TV was a very different medium.
I really do see everybody at Marvel Television as storytellers. They might have different titles, but whether they're actors or they're showrunners or they're somebody that answers the phone, all of them are storytellers.
Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?
I wish I'd not taken off all my clothes in my first television series, 'The Camomile Lawn.'
And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film.
I would not be unhappy were I the last cisgender male to play a female transgender on television.
It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing.
We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.
There's something terribly solitary about working in movies and television, and in New York, so much of the theater is showcasing.
I got into television because I hated it so. I thought, there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.
I started wrestling professionally, I did my first television match at 16, but I was wrestling at country fairs and national armories when I was 14.
I'm very committed to and interested in CNN's journalism and our magazines and our movie studio, not just HBO, where I grew up. But I do have a fondness for subscription television.
Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.
When television became popular, reality shows started coming up and with such reality shows, people got a platform to show their talent.
I only watch 'Ye Hai Mohabbatein' on television. It's my favourite show and I absolutely love the bubbly character of Ruhi.
Almost as soon as it aired, 'Late Night' became one of the most buzzed-about shows on television.
I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.
American television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television.
I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.
Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.
I'm a huge television fan, in general. I love TV. I love movies. I always have. It's what I do, and I love it.
When I first did a U.S. pilot season, there were very few British actors schlepping around town trying to get into television. That was 1999.
Television is ever more ambitious, more akin to the Victorian novel with multiple narratives and more discursive material.
There's nothing worse in television than what I call 'poor man's Jerry Bruckheimer.'
Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.
I started in theater. I would liken sitcom work more to theater work than I would, perhaps, to dramatic television. It's so quick. It kind of feels like the pace of a play.
Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.
In television writing, even if you're running the writers room, it's a writers room.
When I was a kid, I would turn on the television as soon as I got home from school.
'The Buccaneers' was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.
Print and television journalism are very different, and it's not like one is better than the other.
If I had to put in order what I love to do the most, it would be musical theater, movies, and then television.
I do more films than television, and in Mexico, they are more situational comedies - not the typical telenovela.
Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.
There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.
What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
In the mid-1980s, there wasn't a representation of gayness on television. Our glitter and our goofiness and our great costumes made in Vegas; the cheekiness and campiness of the show, it turns out little boys who were gay coveted our act.
I think that television and the web are fusing anyway, so I think that ultimately whatever I do, I'm going to blend the two forms.
I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.
Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.
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