My priorities are where they should be, which is making really great, really exciting television.
I did 'Showtime at the Apollo' when I was 10, and it was the first time that I'd ever performed on TV, and it felt great.
I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting?
I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.
I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.
I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.
The good thing about TV is that you can still watch the product, even if you're not in charge of it anymore.
One incredible tool to accomplish bringing a product to the public is to put a face on TV shows, movies, and the actors in them by using good PR.
I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece.
People love cliches. If you can give people cliches, that's very good TV, then.
I basically have paid for a piano and a flat-screen television completely with my poker earnings. I'm pretty good at it.
There are literally tens of thousands of very good content providers in the world that don't distribute their content through TV channels.
To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.
The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.
I would like to prove that on TV, everyday lives can be as compelling as the life-styles of the rich and famous. Especially lives that we catch at extraordinary moments.
Theatre is done largely for the love of the craft. Television makes you famous. And films immortalize you. That's the relationship between the three.
Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!
If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them and is supposed to be funny, what you'll notice is that they don't laugh.
I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.
I was a little bit ashamed of American TV because I thought, 'None of the shows my father works on are as funny as my father.'
