My father never wanted me to be a writer. He didn't - he came to terms with it maybe two years before he died. He wanted me to be a weather girl because when I was growing up, there were very few Latinas on television, and in the early '70s when you ...
We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us,...
When he came to television, there was no way I wasn't going to watch. Of course, he delivered everything that you would expect David Lynch to deliver, and more, and he was doing it in primetime network television. Even as a 14-year old, I wanted some...
Francine Parker: Rescue stations. Charlie Parker - WGON-TV Typist who hands out notes to Francine: Half of those are inoperative as of now. Francine Parker: Charlie, these are rescue stations. We can't send people to inoperative rescue stations. Char...
[Prothero is showering, while watching his own television rant about the terrorist V] Lewis Prothero: [on television] I'll tell you what I wish. I wish I had been there! I wish I had the chance for a face-to-face. Just one chance, that's all I'd need...
What was bizarre, when I was younger, I never watched TV. I would rather watch a movie 100 times than to watch a TV show, just to find another nuance. I can't tell you how many times I've watched 'On the Waterfront', just to find a flaw so that I can...
I don't watch much television.
Television has raised writing to a new low.
I tell jokes for a check; I'm on TV for a check.
When I watch TV, I'm embarrassed by some of what's on.
Nothing you see on TV is real.
I want to make smart television.
Tone is everything in TV.
You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV.
Television is a service, but it's also a business.
'The Wire' was a combination of great TV and great theater.
I'm a big fan of TV.
I don't want to see a 70-year-old on television.
My interests are not really with television, per se.
I don't do a lot of guest shots on television.
I'm not a self-promoter. I'm not on TV all the time.
