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.
It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.
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.
I like to do a movie, to be on it 8, 10 weeks. It evolves as you're working on it. Little things come to you every day. It's a slow process, and when you have to pack it into a short period of time, which you do for television, the experience is not ...
I was living in London and I thought, 'There's nothing here for me anymore.' I don't want to become this actor who's going to be doing this occasional good work in the theater and then ever diminishing bad television. I thought I'd rather do bad movi...
Movie stars are doing TV series, and former TV stars are doing guest shots. Everybody gets bumped down the line. That's affected everyone in the industry. I've been lucky; I've stayed busy. I'll cross my fingers until it's my turn to be sitting aroun...
The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved.
The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'
I tell stories so only the independents do that and they don't pay you that much. I'd rather do TV or an HBO movie.
My favorite TV show ever is 'Boy Meets World,' and my favorite movie is 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off.'
The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work. So that's what I do.
It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?
I'm probably not creative or talented enough to create an especially compelling piece of content, but I really do enjoy watching a great movie or TV show.
It's funny because all through the '80s I didn't do TV and movies very much. I prided myself that I was making a living in the theater.
I've kissed just three people in my life, other than stuff that I've done for TV or movies. I know - I'm weird!
I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies.
I love movies, I love television and I know that the kind of stuff I love to watch and that's what I want to do.
I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.
You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.
