Tom Green Quotes

Nobody in college races home and says, 'I can't wait to see the news! I can't wait to see who CBS is going to hire!'

Media really excited me. As an undergrad, I majored in radio, television, and film and did internships with CNBC and CNN. My first job was at Sky News in London.

There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.

You can't guarantee everything's going to be televised.

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

I'm gonna do a little radio, a little TV, and just create content in general and hopefully make the world a happier place.

The job I wanted before I was in college was to work for CBS.

I've never been in the studio world; TV is as close as I get to the more corporate approach to making entertainment.

You're on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls. What is wrong with you?

Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.

All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic, but gave me a taste of how to combine my love of politics and broadcasting.

Doing a half-hour TV show is a dream.

As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative.

The best businesses that all of us have in the entertainment business are cable content channels, which have a dual revenue stream.

Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything.

My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a newspaper for a while, then went to New York and worked in PR at RCA and NBC, and at 'The United States Steel Hour,' a drama series.

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

My heart is in television, just because it's been so good to me.

We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.

I saw this new thing called television, and I saw people throwing pies in each other's faces, and I thought, 'This could be a wonderful tool for education! Why is it being used this way?' So I said to my parents, 'You know, I don't think I'll go into seminary right away. I think I'll go into television.'

TV is just an incredible media.

I grew up watching television as a kid. It was always something I wanted to pursue.

I love doing talk shows.

I'm interested in producing more TV shows.