We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that regard.
My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show.
Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
I have an Emmy, but it's no big deal: work in TV news long enough, you eventually get one.
I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.
I thought that I'd never be able to work in films or TV. Another girl would be cutting her nose to be an actress. I was always very sure about myself.
That's the holy grail as a TV writer, to work on a story that you care about and to put it out there and for it to find the audience and connect with fans and connect with critics.
I work with companies like Audiostiles to put together mixes for my restaurants. I even created a soundtrack for my television show.
To be a series regular for two seasons taught me so much about what it takes to be on a TV schedule and work those kind of hours and just work in front of a camera in general.
Having gotten TV shows on the air, that's so much less work that trying to get the 'Veronica Mars' movie made.
I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.
I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.
It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
When you work in TV long enough, you tend to get a little jaded with different things you have to deal with.
I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's, like, 60 - and it doesn't work.
And as a woman on television, I actually feel like you're more representative of women if you're - if you've got curves and if everything isn't super tight.
Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
