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.
One feels relieved these days when a play is not like television.
Switch off the TV and tune in to yourself
But, self, that thing was on TV, and this one wants to tear your liver out your nose. Run.
I guess at the age of 15 was the first time I made a goal of wanting to be on television, and I didn't get a series until I was 23, which was 'The West Wing.'
The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to be.
It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time.
