Amy Hill Quotes

The thing about TV is it's a meritocracy. I love that aspect of it - and I've had shows that have gone on the air and been canceled. I've seen the good and the bad of it.

I love TV and am happy doing TV shows.

'Cosmos' wouldn't deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People, when they watch TV in the evening, want to see stories, and science simply tells the best stories.

Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up.

I think you just have to take everything that happens on a TV show with a grain of salt. You sign up for a show for six years having zero idea where they're going to go with the character, so you just have to get on the ride of the show and go with wherever they take you.

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

I've met Shonda Rhimes a few times, and certainly she's an inspiration for me in television.

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

I think television keeps on being a place where writers can go, and if they're successful, they can have their way, and they can have creative freedom.

I go to the movies, and I watch MTV and the Disney Channel. I admit I like 'Hannah Montana.'

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 knew I wanted to do a show on NBC - it's rooted in its history; it's part rooted in nostalgia and part rooted in the potential of it. For me, there was no other choice.

I've been such a fan of American TV.

There's some beautiful filmmaking on television. I'm getting a lot of my artistic sustenance from what's happening there.

I really enjoy working, you know, on streaming outlets because there's so much creative control for the creators of the shows, and, you know, you're allowed to make such great television.

I was raised watching sitcoms, and I love long-form comedy.

I've got 'Lost' and '24' on TiVo. And I'm an 'American Idol' fan.

TV shows about TV were taboo for a while.

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.

TV shows help pass a lot of my time.

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

In the era of networks only, I cannot tell you the number of shows that we don't know about that did not survive. They got canceled. But there are a few that survived by accident, because they didn't have anything else to do, and they stayed with it.

Part of what I love about television is that my imagination gets to keep going. It doesn't stop.

If you think about TV series, we make 16 one-hour movies a season. You don't get any opportunity like that in movies. I mean, I can't say I'll be able to do 16 movies in the next year, and so that's how I see it.

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