James Wolk Quotes

I love TV and am happy doing TV shows.

I've known John Landgraf for 20 years. He said it perfectly. People will ask if I've seen X. My response has often been, 'Seen it? I've never heard of it.'

For the last five, 10 years, you're seeing the best things happen on television.

People have always said since TV was invented what a cultural wasteland it is but I think it is the worst and the best. It is the golden age of television.

The truth is, we have this idea that late night is about creativity and being cool, but that's not our job. Our job is to get as many people watching the commercials in between our show. That's the reality of it.

Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.

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.

The TV mini-series is kind of a lost genre because the networks have given up on it.

It's easy for the board to say, 'Well, add makeover shows.' The No. 1 show for women in the United States is 'The Walking Dead.' That's not a makeover show.

There are too many shows about Rajasthani families.

Television is a huge industry, and actors down south are aware of it.

There's a lot of politics in television and a lot of in-fighting and all that sort of stuff, but in the end, we are purveyors of entertainment. Viewers are not really bogged down in who's doing what and who hates who and who's doing best in the ratings. They watch television to be entertained.

MTV and video games have solved that problem as far as most of humanity goes. That, and telly, as it were.” “Telly?” Who was that? He grunted in amusement. “Television, of course. Don’t you speak English?” “You sure don’t,” I muttered. Shaking his head, he frowned at me.

I absolutely love television. What's so great about TV is that I can tell 20 stories in a year. If I was working at a feature studio, I'd tell 1% of someone else's story, over the course of four years.

My father did think I should get interested in television. But I had very little interest in television and it wasn't something I wanted to do. I really never thought about going to work on big feature films in Hollywood. But when we made The Householder, Columbia Pictures bought it. Who would have ever imagined?

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

TV's great. I think the best stuff is happening on television.

A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.

Television is a tough business. It's not that easy to jump shops.

Everything you look at now, the scripts that come in that you look at, the television scripts are way better than the movie script. The talent is going to television.

I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now.

There are so many shoot-'em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.

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

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 think that's why I keep being drawn back to television, because I think it's one of the most creative outlets.