Diana Rigg Quotes

I've got a lot to say about television. There's a lot going on in television right now and I feel like a huge part of television.

I've been such a fan of American TV.

TV isn't like films; you can't rest on your laurels.

I think HBO and a couple of the other cable channels in America are making some of the best television that's ever been made.

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

Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].

It's amazing how many people you see on TV. I did my first television show a month ago, and the next day five million television sets were sold. The people who couldn't sell theirs threw them away.

It's a really incredible time to be working in television.

I don't really follow television so much, but in the old days there was a certain way TV was, and it wasn't really like cinema. I don't know how many ways it was different or the same, but it was not quite like cinema. Now, cinema can happen on television.

The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

There used to be a huge snobbism between the film industry and the television industry. I produced and acted in my first - well way back - but the first thing that I produced and acted in was Sarah, Plan and Tall. And the only place to go at the time for really quality television was Hallmark Hall of Fame. And think how much television has changed since then.

I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train.

TV has been very good to me, and I hope I've been good to it, but I also love film.

It's how the '70s were for movies, the 2000s are for TV. I think it's a phenomenal time for TV and to be involved in it.

Most of the TV shows I've done have all been in the U.S.

TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.

I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

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

I guess working on 'Mad Men' turned me onto AMC and really got me watching the network, and so with that I got a good idea of the type of show they like to produce.

I've never worked in the U.K. television industry, but my guess it that it's a tough world for directors.

TV's been good to me.

I would like to have a go at TV. I think, especially when you have kids, that you spend a lot of time watching telly, and you think, 'How come I'm not doing that?'

I watch a lot of television. The stuff that they're putting on television, series like 'The Americans' and 'Game of Thrones,' it's so superior to most of the films that are coming out of Hollywood in terms of drama, certainly in terms of what we're interested in.

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