Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
I had written movie scores, television series, played with other people. Carl had done the same with Asia, with other bands, everything. We weren't about to entrust Greg automatically with a production credit.
You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.
I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated.
You never know, especially on episodic television, you just don't know week to week what's going to happen.
You could go to Estonia and there's probably an episode of 'Seinfeld' playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.
Television is ephemeral, a fact that some will find reassuring. But earthlings will continue to pump the kilowatts into the ether. And eventually, when those signals have washed over a few hundred thousand star systems, someone may notice.
In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.
Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
I think, in some ways, there's a point as a television writer that 'executive producer' is the natural credit you get, and it can be a vanity title, or you can make of it what you want.
Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television.
So many people are on television that don't know me, and they're like experts on me.
We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We live in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast it to millions of Americans without verifying whether the video had been fabricated or not.
When I first saw children's television, I thought it was perfectly horrible. And I thought there was some way of using this fabulous medium to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.
The Saving Our Cinderellas program is a facet of Saving Our Daughters which is more specifically geared towards using music, theatre, film and television as a means to help build self-esteem in our girls by developing programs that allow them to discover, explore and express their individuality using the arts.
Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.
That's the power of television. You come into people's homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of intimacy.
I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene.
There's something about the impact of a big screen that means something to me, even though I realize almost every film is fated to be seen for a year in theaters, and then forever after on television.
