There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.
Look at television and how comparatively few minorities are out there.
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.
We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators in contemporary society and an increasing influence on all the children followed in 'Child of Our Time.'
Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.
Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.
Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes. I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay.
The making of television has changed quite a bit. Now you have to do them n cheaper budgets.
I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.
Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
I've done about 15 movies and four television series in Mexico. My last two movies were the highest grossing in Mexican-cinema history - 'Nosotros los Nobles' and 'Instructions Not Included.'
It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.
I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.
You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to have is access to an Internet cafe or a public library, and you can put your thoughts out in public.
I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille.
All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.
The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.
Television networks are a lot like automobile manufacturers or anyone else who's in commerce. If something out there catches on with the public... I guess you can call it 'market research.'
I am perhaps unusual in that I came to 'Doctor Who' through the numerous novelisations and not through the television show.
A lot of YouTubers, because they have such pride in what they do, have a negative connotation towards television. I don't feel that way. I feel like it's another medium to reach a broader audience.
Everything is about color. If you look at magazines and advertising and television, the thing you remember is the color.
Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user
But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.
It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.
Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.
I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.
Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.
Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.
I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.
That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.
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're required to be outspoken in journalism, and in television you're exposed anyway, because everyone watches it.
I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.
Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.
Good television people have a sense of what television people relate to.
Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest sporting event in the world.
You could go to Estonia and there's probably an episode of 'Seinfeld' playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.
I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.
I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose - that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it's just not something I want to do. I overdosed.
I want to do theater and I am looking forward to doing more Television and Movies. I also want to direct some plays in theater workshops for people with disabilities.
The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.
One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to a lot of television because you're working in a very constricted box, and the box is defined by the amount of money you have to spend and the amount of time you have to get ready.
Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.
I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.
I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science.
'ER' was so huge that whatever I did coming back to television, I'd have to feel as strongly about.
I want to do more television and I want to do more radio.
In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.
Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.
The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.
We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.
I never thought I would become a television host, but I never thought anybody would pay me to just talk.
Ive spent over 25 years in the television industry, the direct response industry. I met a lot of people and certainly learned the power of commercials and their brand building potential.
I can't believe that person on the television is really me.
In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. Its nauseating, programme after programme.
The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.
People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.
I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.
I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.
I don't watch any television, hardly ever because I'm so busy. I always obviously watch my shows because I blog about it and talk about it, but no, I can watch the news in the morning and that's it.
I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.
Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.
Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.
I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are.
I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.
I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests, private interests.
But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.
Actually, the kids at school don't treat me any differently at all just because I'm on television.
I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.
I just always had a love for television and movies.
It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - art imitates life.
Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing.
I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies.
Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
The last thing I wanna do is sit home and watch television.
If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.
The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers.
One of the big secrets of finding time is not to watch television.
Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going.
I'm trying to become a young CEO, to brand myself in television and movies.
I don't have a TV at my house. I literally do not. I have a television, but I don't have anything plugged into it, though. I watch DVDs.
People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.
It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
The great thing about Los Angeles is that you can get so much money in this town by constantly failing. You can get a lot of television deals that don't go anywhere, but you still get paid.
I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.
Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails.
At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.
You can't get any braver than going on national television to be weighed.
Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen.
I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television.
I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.
I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy.
And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.