Robert Ashley Quotes

While I love film and want to continue to pursue it 100 percent, my home is TV.

Producing, in television, we're in the business of voyeurism.

Television is not a gimmick.

I love Channel 4 and Clerkenwell Films, they aren't afraid to take risks.

I do love TV as a medium.

I love TV and am happy doing TV shows.

I have always been wanting to do TV as it is a huge medium and in India we are making such amazing shows.

For me, TV had always been a medium for entertainment.

If I've done anything, I've brought passion to television.

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.

I love working in TV. TV is fast. You shoot it, and it's done quickly.

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

I am a creator of TV shows. 'Lifestyle' ran for 14 years... that was pleasurable. We also had 'Runaway' for eight years. We did two years of a show called 'The Start of Something Big', and we did a network series called 'Fame, Fortune and Romance.'

I love television. Television is a great medium; I'm fortunate enough to direct amazing television.

'Macbeth' is one of the best operas ever, and doing it was a great experience. I added some things to the opera based from my experience on the movie - such as some of the special effects and bits of film - to make it new and interesting. It was a very good work and a very good experience.

I have no problem with television as a genre.

At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.

I first started doing hidden-camera segments on 'The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.' He was the coolest guy in the world to work for because he understands the creative process, and he had total trust. And he just let me make up whatever I wanted; I experimented and tried and played. We had a lot of fun over there.

Dan Rather pulling on a sweater and thereby winning a whole new chunk of the populace: That's television. President Reagan's press conferences: That's television. Keith Jackson is television. So are Kermit the Frog, instant replay, and the Fiesta Bowl.

I've been such a fan of American TV.

The nature of television - it's quicker than both a play and a movie.

There are an enormous amount of techniques I wanted to beta test in television. You can't take those risks on a $100 million movie.

I think television's amazing, and I'm going to do more of it. I love it. I think it's a great place to be, but I'm still going to keep doing movies too.

TV is just an incredible media.

It's not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas.