Rob Reiner Quotes

I am of the opinion that there is more high-quality television being produced than at any time in the history of television.

I feel like it's a golden age for television.

These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.

Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only.

If there's something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.

Television is better than it's ever been in history. A lot of stories are being pushed - because of how complicated they are to make - toward Netflix and other channels on cable.

It feels as though, with all of these cable series or Internet shows or limited series events that are only 10 or 13 episodes... the quality is really rising.

I love TV and am happy doing TV shows.

I call the '70s the "golden age of television"; in the early '70s there were sensationally good shows.

I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now.

Television is not hurting. Television is in fantastic shape. It's just a golden age for other people.

I worked in television now for a few years. I think summer has become a really exciting time for television shows. And I think it's become a time for shows to distinguish themselves.

People have always said since TV was invented what a cultural wasteland it is but I think it is the worst and the best. It is the golden age of television.

There used to be a huge snobbism between the film industry and the television industry. I produced and acted in my first - well way back - but the first thing that I produced and acted in was Sarah, Plan and Tall. And the only place to go at the time for really quality television was Hallmark Hall of Fame. And think how much television has changed since then.

Now things on TV are every bit as good or better than what you find in movie theatres.

To me, television is one of the most exciting things going on right now, as far as content goes. Some of these shows that are on television are better than any of the movies out there.

I think TV is evolving, but on the other hand, there is a presence of regressive shows happening, but I choose to ignore that because I am part of a very different and challenging soap.

TV isn't like films; you can't rest on your laurels.

The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.

I don't really think about film or television or going directly to the internet. I just think about doing something that people are going to get excited about.

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

TV's great. I think the best stuff is happening on television.

A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.

I think the water cooler is more important than ever. "Oh, did you hear that 'Inside Amy Schumer' is fabulous?" Where do you find it? It's on Netflix, it's on iTunes, it's on places nobody ever heard of five years ago.

Obviously, in this day and age, with the TV shows, there are some really interesting ones. I'm not that interested in going and doing a network show, but like everybody else, trying to find something good.