Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first.
It is genuinely shocking to me that I'm on a television show.
Reality TV rots people's brains.
Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
The glory of American television is Dennis Franz.
American television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television.
When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
Howard Beale: Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.
My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.
A lot of people get emotional in movies that are cartoons, but not in TV shows.
Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.
Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.
I learned how to speak English watching television.
In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.
Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.
I never say I work in television, I say I get to work in television.
But it is not time constraints alone that produce such fragmented and discontinuous language. When a television show is in process, it is very nearly impermissible to say, "Let me think about that" or "I don't know" or "What do you mean when you say....
Anyone who's happy in a world this fucked-up has some serious psychological issues. You think I'm crazy because I see things as they are. You'd rather put on Disneyland goggles and watch TV and pretend it's fine. It's not crazy if I see monsters when...
Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It’s bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.
We watch death and destruction on TV, in movies, over the news and online so much that it is just a part of our lives. It was never meant to be that way. In the end, we have paid a heavy price for our curiosity.
We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We live in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast i...
