Gary David Goldberg Quotes

Television and I grew up together.

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

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.

Television is intensely personal.

Television is not a gimmick, and if you think it is, you’ll lose again.

The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

Television really has been responsible for everything that I've done successfully.

That's the power of television. You come into people's homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of intimacy.

You often forget, because you're so inside it, that television has power.

Television is an important part of how we communicate.

I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.

I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.

I think the networks, in general, have to evaluate what's happening around them. I'm sure they're scared about a lot of things: Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, and all these places that allow people to watch shows in chunks.

I liked television, and television liked me.

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

You could go to Estonia and there's probably an episode of 'Seinfeld' playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

I don't underestimate audiences' intelligence. Audiences are much brighter than media gives them credit for. When people went to a movie once a week in the 1930s and that was their only exposure to media, you were required to do a different grammar.

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

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.