Viewing Experience Quotes

I do love TV as a medium.

I mean, I find drama to be engaging and it makes your blood pressure go up and you keep watching, but it's not as entertaining as, say, comedy.

'Game Of Thrones' was too big a canvas for a movie, but 'Dirty White Boys' is like a great old Western: there's so much compression, and it's so pressurized, it demands to be told in one sitting.

I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD.

TV's great. I think the best stuff is happening on television.

I have nothing against 3D films but I do not need to see them.

You know, in an ideal world, people would just be intrigued and go and see a film without knowing anything about it, because that's where you're going to have the most experience of a film, the biggest, the most revelation of a film. But at the same time, I think there are benefits of having seen a trailer where you actually look forward to seeing moments in a film knowing that they're coming up. I don't know which is better.

I do remember once going to Salzburg in Austria. Liverpool were playing a European game there, and they put me in a box behind glass. I hate being behind glass; I always want to feel part of the action.

The difficulty with American television is it's pot luck.

I don't really like watching 3-D.

Everybody expects to have a filmic experience when they're watching television, whether they're watching network, basic cable, premium, or streaming.

Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

I don't think 3D television gets huge adoption until the consumer experience is no different than HD television. Until you can sit down on your couch and just turn on your TV, and it's 3D without anything else happening, I don't think it'll be a massive adoption.

People should not pass judgment until they have seen the film.

I watched 'The Shield.' That was a big show for me.

I think if people stick with 'The Leftovers,' it's a very rewarding viewing experience. I wanted to be part of that - and what a great cast we got. I wanted to be one of those actors, in that show!

Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.

If you really love films, and you really want to get the full impact, there's a huge difference between watching something on a small screen with a mediocre sound system and watching it on a giant screen in a giant theater with a huge beautiful sound system. I mean, the difference is electric.

I like horror movies that have a degree of coziness to them.

My older movies, I find easier to watch.

At the end of the day, TV is supposed to be entertaining. But it's important for me that there's some take-away value from it.

If I had been in the gallery, I'd have gone home.

The more films and TV shows I spoil for myself, the more I am convinced that truly interesting stories can't be ruined - the plot thickens with the viewing like a rich sauce.

I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.

When I watch TV, I'm embarrassed by some of what's on.