R. Madhavan Quotes

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain.

Cinema has a greater impact as it leaves a long lasting memory. Television, on the other hand, is also good but requires a lot of time.

Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience.

If people are given quality stuff to watch, they'll watch it.

If you make compelling television, they will come.

The way a musical can make us feel is unlike anything else, in song and particularly in dance. I think people fly through plate-glass windows when they get shot because movies don't have dance scenes any more. This is what we do instead.

Cinema is the most important of all the arts for us.

There are stories you can tell on TV that can't be told in movies anymore.

Entertainment is a great form of being able to tell a story and to spread a message.

I always feel in movies, I don't know if it's because I'm jaded, but I always feel like we don't go far enough.

TV's job is to make you lean in, and a film's job is to make you lean back.

I still think what the consumers are looking for is, number one, entertainment. They want to be entertained. It can be a liberal, a libertarian, or a conservative. It can be far-left or far-right. If they are entertained, they are going to tune in.

I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.

TV is really about keeping things fresh and making sure you have the most energy possible for these very short spurts of time.

It could be sci-fi, love story, historical drama what counts for me is the fact that they're made by great directors with a great point of view who bring the audience to be elevated and at the same time entertained. That's what cinema is.

I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture.

I think it's intelligent, emotional, character-rich storytelling - at the core, I think those are the most important elements, and I think they can be found across all of our dayparts. That's what, for me, ABC really stands for.

TV is our window on the world. It's a powerful medium for great stories that become part of our very, very personal journey.

TV is just another opportunity for me to entertain people. Although it's definitely a lot slower than the Internet, that's for sure.

I'm afraid I don't look at reviews or anything like that, but you get an immediate sense from the audience that they've had a lovely evening.

Each generation wants their own form of entertainment and their own form of storytelling.

I work on my technique, but when I do a video, I want people to be amazed by the speed or the power. The casual fans don't care if your hands are up or your hands are down.

Television is a very powerful medium and I am open to doing any type of shows on television.