Mary Tyler Moore Quotes

I don't really know much about TV and what people want to see. I'm not that well-informed about it.

What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?

Every television show you go on is a choice.

You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?

Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.

Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale.

I don't watch 'American Idol.' I don't watch any of that stuff.

Two hundred channel choices in most homes certainly gives you the world of choice. And so slicing it, dicing it, and offering someone their favorite thing - by the way, if it's not good enough, make it yourself and post it.

You know what shows today are missing? Stars.

The demand for entertainment is insatiable.

Why fight technology at all? The audience is always going to tell you what they like best. And you, as a storyteller, as a communicator, are going to be required to adjust to that.

I thought all those channels on cable TV were really cool.

I will do stories which most of the audiences like.

People already have tons of regular TV. They don't need more of that.

I'm just not interested in daytime television, which is something you should remember the next time somebody offers you a daytime talk show.

What I want to do is make things that I think people want to watch. I'm a film fan, so I think I'm in touch with other film fans and that they might want to watch stuff. The other reason I really don't care is because no matter what you do in life, no matter what you wear, or what you say, people are going to like it or they're not. And that is all. Everything, down to the socks I chose today - people are going to like them or they're not and there's nothing you can do about that.

Television is completely another medium.

Sooner or later, everything turns into television.

To understand this whole area, you have to stop thinking like a viewer and start thinking like a network programming exec.

Hopefully I'll fit the television in there. Maybe it'll be like music and television and movies. I mean, who knows? But hopefully I can be successful at everything I do.

TV always wants more people to be watching.

It feels good to turn on the TV and have options, a variety. That's why television is so good.

I'm always kind of off to the next movie, and focused on making sure that the one I'm currently working on is as good as the one that's already on TV.

What's better these days, television or film? It's a dead heat. In fact, one could argue for television with more regularity.

Television leaves no external scars.