Tallulah Bankhead Quotes

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

Does 'Jersey Shore' make me sad for humanity that this is what's passing for entertainment? Well, this is a business, and if that's what millions of people want to watch, I can't fault someone for producing it.

I'm never one to compare shows to shows.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

There are movies and TV shows I wish we didn't make, sure, but we're in the business of creating things that are not all going to work.

I know that movies are basically meant to be entertainment, but I'm not that interested in entertainment.

The newspapers and magazines, the theaters and the social reform movements, are more and more made for a public which looks only to be entertained and which has lost the power of sustained attention.

Television is the first truly democratic culture—the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

I kind of love working on film because television in live, that's tricky.

Movies cater to what the audiences want.

Hollywood makes stuff that people absorb, and it lingers in your subconscious.

They said VCRs would kill the movies; it didn't.

People don't really see television shows and movies as different anymore. They expect the same quality.

The publicity machine for films and television is so much bigger than for theatre.

I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.

For years, the defenders of television have argued that the networks are only giving the people what they want. That might be true. But so is the Medellin cartel.

I took a break from TV for about three-four years. During that time, I had to let go of some of the best shows that were offered to me, as I wanted to focus on films. It was believed that if you are seen too much on TV, you won't get films.

It's so funny: whenever there's a new technology introduced, there's always this fear it's going to end entertainment as we know it. When records came around, they were going to be the end of live music. Nobody would ever want to go see live music again.

I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture.

TV is just another opportunity for me to entertain people. Although it's definitely a lot slower than the Internet, that's for sure.

There's a different kind of experience you have when you experience live entertainment versus the kinds of media we tend to consume most of, when we're watching television or films or reading books. Live entertainment is a whole different beast.

Television is as much a part of my journey as film.

With television, attention spans have been shortened. It's something we have to fight against: the dumbing down of the audience. To be part of an audience is a privilege. To be with the people on stage, to let them reach you. If you're doing a million other things, they won't reach you.

I think there's enough TV that makes people feel dumb out there.