Diana Rigg Quotes

I don't really follow television so much, but in the old days there was a certain way TV was, and it wasn't really like cinema. I don't know how many ways it was different or the same, but it was not quite like cinema. Now, cinema can happen on television.

People have always said since TV was invented what a cultural wasteland it is but I think it is the worst and the best. It is the golden age of television.

Television, I love it, everything that happened before television lumped together, never caused folks to turn on a street to stare at me, or waitresses to ask for autographs.

Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.

I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.

Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

When television captured the popular imagination of the 1950s, a rash of movies satirized Hollywood while also mythologizing it.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.

There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology... the new way of killing time.

Radio and films, and now television, open for us a window onto everything that goes on throughout the world: the events—and the ideas too—of all humanity invade our homes day after day

I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television — of that I am quite sure.

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

Acting, music, comedy are all just delivery systems to communicate ideas and stories.

Television has always been an appealing medium for writers to work in.

When I started doing television, I had no idea that people were watching it. But then things opened up for television in such a way that it's no more 'small' screen, as it is called.

There are very few things that 13 million people tune in to witness, so television is a really relevant and powerful thing.

The only shared reality we have is things we have seen on television.

I also have always felt that television has a huge potential for the kinds of audiences that some films would never dream or ever be able to have. So that potential is very exciting to me.

The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

Television in the 1960s & 70s had just as much dross and the programmes were a lot more tediously patronising than they are now. Memory truncates occasional gems into a glittering skein of brilliance. More television, more channels means more good television and, of course, more bad. The same equation applies to publishing, film and, I expect, sumo wrestling.

Hollywood was like a mouse being followed by a cat called television.

Television is what we're all very attracted to because that's where the best writing and the best characters are.