Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.
It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.
I felt that it was my mission to see to it that black talent had an opportunity to get national television exposure.
I would wish eventually to be able to make television that informs and educates as well as entertains.
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 wish I'd not taken off all my clothes in my first television series, 'The Camomile Lawn.'
The guy who sits in front of the television is unengaged. That man is a bad man.
Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.
Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional.
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.
It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.
I probably would be continuing to do voice-overs, continuing to do cartoon shows, and at the same time I'd probably be on a sitcom or a dramatic television show.
I've been an actor for 14 years now and a lot of that time was spent in theatre and television. Then I moved to L.A. to try and build upon that and it's starting to pay off!
If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.
I had never worked in television before 'Freaks and Geeks,' and 'New Girl' is the first time since that I've worked on a series that is actually a series and not just a pilot.
For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.
Just watching TV as a kid, for a long time I thought, as a young kid, obviously when I was, like, 4 or 5, I thought that people lived in the television.
I remember sitting one time doing 100 interviews in a day, and they're all television interviews and they're kind of - and you just sit there and they bring these people in and out, and in out.
When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds.
Well I'm not much of a singer. But it's been a really nice time to do film, television, theater and have it all happening at once. That wasn't planned but it just happens.
I was born in 1960, and space theory, especially in the last part of that time and going into the '70s, space was very relevant at that time. It was on television - all the experiments, the moon landings, everything like that.
