Yvonne Orji Quotes

My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.

It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.

The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still paramount.

From the time I signed on to 'The Following,' things have already vastly changed in the entertainment world in general. It's an adjustment for me.

I think our kids live an extraordinarily different life than what I lived growing up. Pretty much everything about their life is different than mine was.

I've been in various roles in TV - writer, producer, associate director.

People ask me if I am going to leave TV, but my answer is a big 'no.'

When I grew up, there was no TV, nothing. The guitar could be my whole life. The kids today have Internet and TV and games and all that stuff.

If my career isn't moving ahead I may consider TV.

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

Now your kids can't escape. Thirteen-year-olds back then, if they didn't watch the evening news, they didn't see news. If they didn't watch the 6:30 or seven p.m. news, they didn't see news. Today younger people have much more access to that kind of hard news than you did when you were 13 back then.

I'm more interested in...I'm more of a descendent. I'm more critical. It comes from a different place and nowadays the young people know how to make just light entertainment.

In the long term, you have to believe that movies and TV shows will be like the opera and the novel, pretty nichey businesses.

I think TV is evolving, but on the other hand, there is a presence of regressive shows happening, but I choose to ignore that because I am part of a very different and challenging soap.

I don't say that I have a job. I have a gig, or a piece, or a film, or a show, but it's never a job.

The concept of 'diversity' was this big moral 'should.' And now with the success of shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat,' 'Empire,' 'Blackish,' and 'Jane the Virgin,' it's become this big business 'must,' which is so great.

I think the internet is kind of redefining what it is to be a teenager. Because there's a lot of media that's aimed at teenagers that other people are getting into. But, conversely, pornography or stuff that's intended for adults is completely readily available to anyone, like teenagers.

The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.

A lot of youth today have become very narrow and conservative in a way, whereas we in the older generation are kind of living it.

Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?

I think kids are fairly similar. It's just really the technology. Like, you won't find kids in the 60s, or anyone for that matter, having mobile phones, texting, watching YouTube, and being absorbed in their technology.

Going from three TV channels to broadcast TV to cable to talk radio; obviously the online explosion has changed things.

I hate the modern day the kids live in. I don't think it's very cool. Everyone's interconnected.

For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing . . . the final tipping balance.

These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here