Tom Berenger Quotes

The future of American film lies on television.

You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?

Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only.

I have no idea what the economics of the movie business is, especially with all the new Amazon, Netflix, Showtime, AMC, SyFy, and HBO series. But I am intrigued with what feels like a new type of show - the six-to-eight-hour movie. It's a little too long to watch in one setting, but you can watch it over a three- to five-day period.

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.

Television is a huge industry, and actors down south are aware of it.

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

Television is a tough business. It's not that easy to jump shops.

I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes to pay for shows like Prison Break. Simon Cowell's been signing my paychecks and for that I say thanks.

I don't really watch television, and I don't watch these shows that promote shows.

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

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.

There is a lot of territory out there still to explore TV-wise, show-wise, movie-wise, everything.

You know what shows today are missing? Stars.

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

There's not a lot of light on television.

It's funny: We have so many shows and so many channels and so many things to occupy people as entertainment, especially with a show like 'Scandal,' which is clearly a hit, with a lot of heat around it - but every once in a while, people will say, 'What are you doing?' and I'll say 'Scandal,' and they'll have no idea what I'm talking about.

I've been such a fan of American TV.

I believe people will be watching their TV screens for a long time and that TV channels have a long-term life.

I'm a big believer in the old-school way of releasing television. It's not to say that other platforms aren't making great shows, but there's something about just dumping it all down at once that I think, honestly, cheapens it a touch.

I have always been wanting to do TV as it is a huge medium and in India we are making such amazing shows.

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 we made 'Fireball XL5', I'd never heard of NBC, and I didn't even know what American networks were. I knew that it would be wonderful if the show was successful in America, but I knew nothing about the American networks.

In the U.S., there are around 300 shows in different networks, so there's a lot of work here.

Certainly 'Survivors,' when we put that series out, the second series dipped below 5 million for one of the episodes - all of a sudden, there's no recommission, and I think that's dreadful.