The success of 'The Simpsons' really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.
We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
And I love having the job to go to every week. With movies, there's a lot of downtime. I like working, and television really does that.
I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't.
I'd love to do Broadway some day. Before I started doing television I was just a primarily a stage actor, but I haven't done it in a while.
I have a lot of fun playing a model on television, and I love being an actress. I don't think I could ever handle that world.
MTV definitely has the effect of narrowing the range of music that hits the mainstream. On the other hand, isn't that the effect of television in general?
MTV essentially killed 'American Bandstand' and 'Solid Gold,' because music videos are an easier way for pop artists to gain television exposure.
That was probably the stamp that went into my mind, because I worked in television for many years, doing that kind of music, so that really was my strong forte.
The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine.
It's the cable shows that are really the most interesting - 'Mad Men,' 'Breaking Bad,' those shows are really the premiere shows on television right now.
I'm glad that cinema is catching up to what television has known for a while: That three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men.
In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.
Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen.
Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.
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.
I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.
Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.
When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies.
It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
Television has always been something you watch; now, increasingly, it is also something you do.
