At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.
The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art.
On a clear day I can see NYC. I just have to turn on the TV.
Your level of neuroses will only find love in a made-for-TV movie.
If I have freedom to experiment with a scene, then I try my best to do that. With TV and with the variety of directors you have on a season, you rarely get that opportunity. It's more structured.
What I've certainly learned is that whenever I've said anything about real politics, I've come under attack. So it's best simply to play politics on television.
I've been lucky enough to work with some of the best TV directors there are, and I've learned from how they had to handle when things don't go quite according to plan.
I love the 'So You Think You Can Dance' show. I love it. I think it's some of the best hours on TV.
When I was a young kid, the best stuff on television was always the BBC period dramas - it was what we sat down as a family to watch and what people talked about and looked forward to.
By validating and aggregating the best material from a wide range of independent and mainstream content owners, Babelgum aims to encourage common interest communities that are not well served by traditional television.
In every movie and every TV show, the dads are morons. And dads tend to react by doing what dads do best: They check out. They say, 'Ask your mother.'
And yet that's the best way to watch television actively: with your eyes closed.
Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.
I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.
There's certain things that you can do on cable that you can't do here on network TV, so then you have to think outside the box a little bit.
Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.
Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
The guy who sits in front of the TV set with headphones on has lost the capacity to react to the tactile environment.
I'm just looking for a kind of project that will have a decent role and is something that I'll really enjoy doing. There are a lot more opportunities in television.
You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.
I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.
