Thayer David Quotes

I was always one of those people who would watch the Super Bowl as much for the sports as I did for the ads. I was always just sort of fascinated by the fact that when you turn on the TV, there was motion, there was moving pictures on it.

When we're filming, I sometimes look into the camera and wonder who's out there, who will be watching.

'The Judy Show' would be the name of my TV show if I had one, but I don't.

The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.

If I'm on a show, then that's my favorite channel.

Whether we like it or not, we will have to resort to the use of television spots.

I can do much, I can do everything for a man who will be my friend. I can give him power; I can give him wealth. I can give him reputation - the power, the wealth, the reputation which come to a man who speaks to a million people a day in the columns of a great paper.

I hear from broadcasters pretty often. Their ad revenue is down.

Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone.

I mean, all the ratings wars are silly. But, I mean, someone has to be concerned about the ratings because it means, you know, it translates into revenue.

Because of the power of television, I was visible to everybody all over the world. But there are many things in the theater that are more fulfilling and that I look forward to doing more. But really, I love it all: theater, film, television.

I want to bring more gymnastics on television.

I love doing both theater and television.

When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.

It's not my aspiration to appear on a reality show. That's the last thing I need in my life.

When you're someone in the media, the good thing is, I guess, that you can reach a lot of people.

Without humor, a newscast is a terrible, depressing, unpalatable thing.

You can get on television all the time if you have the money to buy the time.

1952 was the last year that television covered a political event as if television weren't there.

This [the Bush administration] is a print administration, not a television administration.

The Year of the Talking Head

Nixon is the last candidate who couldn’t make it on the Johnny Carson Show who could make it in an election.

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.'

Strange thing, this television.

In my world - advertising - the Super Bowl is judgment day. If politicians have Election Day and Hollywood has the Oscars, advertising has the Super Bowl.