TV Quotes

I think politicians and movie actors … are similar in more ways than they’re different. There is an egocentric quality about both; there is a very sensitive awareness of the public attitude, because you live or die on public favor or disfavor. There is the desire for publicity and for acclaim, because, again, that’s part of your life... And in a strange and bizarre way, when movie actors come to Washington, they’re absolutely fascinated by the politicians. And when the politicians go to Hollywood, they’re absolutely fascinated by the movie stars. It’s a kind of reciprocity of affection by people who both recognize in a sense they’re in the same racket.

My uncle is so funny - Don Vito. He was always fat with the craziest voice. Dude, he barely speaks English; it's just full-blown jibber-jabber. It's so funny to watch on TV because you really need subtitles because you can't understand him.

If we were able to see people in other countries and learn about our differences, why would there be any misunderstandings? War would be a thing of the past.

I want to try something on situational comedy.

The journalistic traits that are valued on TV and radio talk shows are destructive to democracy.

I went on French television for 20 minutes. It was very embarrassing to have to say, 'I'm not dead. I'm well. I'm not ill, and I don't have AIDS.' I hated doing it, because it was so insulting to those who really did have AIDS.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. There's also a negative side.

The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth.

Oh yeah, I grew up with comics. You know, I always like to describe myself as a 'narrative junkie.' I love novels, I love comics, movies, TV. If it's a good story, I'm hooked.

Being in a hotel room and watching 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' is one of my great joys.

Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras....

I'd love to do a drama.

I watch TV series. I play video games, Mariokart. I have been playing Mariokart for a long time, and I'm very good at it.

Actually, you have to spend a lot of time on TV. So I have taken a break from TV and shifted my focus in the movies.

I do love TV as a medium.

I was a TV producer at a noncommercial station, and we were producing some good documentaries - on Head Start, on poverty. But I was struck by the children, and the damage that poverty was doing to them. I didn't think filming them was helping much, so I wondered how we could use TV for them, to teach them.

Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.

I'm a big fan of TV.

I watch a lot of TV. I love nothing more than having a good TV show on DVD, to just plow through.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

When the people believe that the print media and the government-controlled TV are not really reporting what is happening, then people turn away from them, and their next resort is, of course, to access the Internet and what they can get on the Internet.

I do like talk shows. I'm interested in talking to people.

It's really hard to find just a simple character-driven drama, outside of a genre, that was available to direct, except for on TV.

For me, TV had always been a medium for entertainment.

This could be a close election. I can pretty much tell which states are going to be close. If you would start two or three weeks before Election Day and saturate those critical states with [TV Advertising] spots, it could swing the election.