I never thought I would get such a perfect role in 'Modern Family.' A lot of TV shows now are looking for more Latin women.
Theatrically seeing a movie with a group of people and having a collective experience has an authenticity that you can't get with your big screen television.
I started working on a TV show in Australia, straight out of high school, so I missed the whole university experience.
If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!
The Wilmington, Delaware, television station that bills itself as The Family Minded Station is Channel 69.
When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family.
I sometimes found myself more comfortable around my TV family than I did with my own parents and sister.
I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.
In this business, there is an insane amount of pressure, spoken and unspoken, to be thin. If you look at some of the television shows, eating disorders become like a competitive thing.
In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.
I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.
I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.
The future of the television industry is changing at an unstoppable rate, and it is exciting to share my experience and thoughts on how this will change the value of content in the digital space.
I've never been on a TV show for more than a season and you have to continually keep it interesting and you have to keep it connected, even as you change.
Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.
I'm purely most happy on a film or television set. That's where I feel I am home.
I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.
There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.
