Lee Grant Quotes

Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

I love TV. I watch more TV than most people you know.

The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.

If people are going to watch TV, let's give them something coherent with actual dialogue.

TV is terrific. It's really fast paced which I find difficult.

I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.

Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.

Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations.

I liken actors and movies and TV shows to football teams. We all have our favorite ones.

I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.

I don't watch that much TV. I think I should probably watch a little bit more, but I love the ABC Family shows.

TV's job is to make you lean in, and a film's job is to make you lean back.

I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.

I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture.

I don't really watch any TV. I'll glance at the TV sometimes if my wife's watching 'Empire' or 'Scandal.' I'll sit with her for an episode. But I don't have a TV show that I watch.

Cinema has a greater impact as it leaves a long lasting memory. Television, on the other hand, is also good but requires a lot of time.

I just don't like reality TV.

I never watch television, although, the other night, my wife and I caught an episode of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' from Season Six. It's the only series of which I've ever watched every single episode.

Nobody's talking about movies the way they're talking about their favorite TV shows.

I rarely watch TV, and in the past two years, I've done three TV shows. It's quite interesting.

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.

Television is on a small screen, inside someone's living room, so you have to grab their attention while they are having dinner or cooking or doing something else.

I have to do popcorn for movies. I can do more important things for television. You're going down when you're making a movie, not going up.

I am a bit fussy when it comes to films.

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.