Fran Lebowitz Quotes

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

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.

Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it.

We've been playing a lot with television. We have some shows set up and then some new shows that are about to be set up. That's gonna be kind of a fun thing for us as producers.

When you do a television show in the States, you get the pilot, and then it's the great unknown. That's the way it is. It's this great leap of faith. It's the Russian roulette of art.

I did 'Red Riding,' which is TV in the U.K. It became a feature project in North America, but we're in a great era of TV. We all know that, and we hear it all the time, but for filmmakers, it's just a godsend to have your television writing and work to do on television, and the means to do it properly.

I developed the pilot for 'Entertainment Tonight' with Jack Haley, Jr. and Al Masini, who became my business partner in 'Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous,' 'Runaway' and several other shows and specials.

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

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

My heart is in television, just because it's been so good to me.

I was in Los Angeles in 1968, and I was fortunate enough to be a writer on 'Laugh-In' and a couple of other television shows.

I would like to see more of the making of just regular television shows. Like the casting process. I think it's so fascinating to watch the actors come in and see how they discuss everybody afterwards. It's a crazy world that has no rhyme or reason.

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.

I did a lot of multi-cam shows when I first started coming out to L.A.

Making good television is what Simon Cowell does. That's his business.

I grew up watching television as a kid. It was always something I wanted to pursue.

TV is a hard thing to do. It's a hard thing to get a show.

I'm interested in producing more TV shows.

I had a really fun career in TV right after I left politics.

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

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.

Working in television is very hard. I think people know that.

I always say that I started in television when harassed was two words instead of one.

Good heavens, television is something you appear on; you don't watch.

I am of the opinion that there is more high-quality television being produced than at any time in the history of television.