David Berman Quotes

Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

I actually don't watch TV at all. If you asked me what my favorite TV show is, I couldn't tell you because I don't watch TV.

My wife and I ran through 'Justified' in, like, a day. And that is such a funny, amazing show.

Binge viewing has been around since DVD box sets.

I stopped watching TV because of 'The Wire.' Like, 'The Wire' ruined everything for me because I don't even want to watch anything else now.

You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.

There was only so much television you could do.

I like the consistency of a TV show, but I like it for three months out of my year, not nine.

If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesn't that show an incredible attention span?

Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.

I don't have television so I don't watch TV.

I'm a binge-watcher!

On the whole, I don't watch television.

For my family, 'black-ish' is the reward on a Thursday evening - a day after the show officially airs, when it's finally available to be streamed.

We're in this really different world of television where everybody is binge watching, and it almost doesn't matter where you're airing.

'Balika' is not my type of show, so I don't watch it.

I definitely binge-watched 'House of Cards' when it first came out.

I don't think people watch too much TV anymore. I don't.

People watch three or four episodes at a time of their shows.

I never just sit down and see what's on TV anymore. And also, I hate almost everything, so that keeps you reading magazines and doing crossword puzzles or whatever.

I'd like to say that I'm a binge-watcher, but I don't really have time. I think the most I've done in a sit-down is three episodes, maybe. It depends.

I am 42 years old and I have $9000, and I am out of ideas. I've nothing to spend it on. I'm bored shitless. I will die with that $9000.

Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become real needs for many people, whose minds are no longer fed by anything but sudden changes and constantly renewed stimuli. We can no longer bear anything that lasts. We no longer know how to make boredom bear fruit. So the whole question comes down to this: can the human mind master what the human mind has made?

Television, for me, is a medium that I'm probably always going to be attached to, one way or another.

There is no longer one way to consume TV. Some shows you want to watch live, some shows you only discover through streaming, some shows you just feel you need to DVR.