Quotes 121 till 140 of 171.
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The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other.
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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
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The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.
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The impact of television on our culture is... indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.
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The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.
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The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?
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The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
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The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.
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The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
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The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
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The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress.
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The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis. And that's been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window.
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There are so few representations of women that look remotely real in scripted television.
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There have been two Geraldo Riveras through his long career. One of them was a reporter who has done some remarkable work. The other was a television show host who did what it took to get an audience.
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There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.
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There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.
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There will be a time very shortly that I just might not be in front of the camera at all, and I might just be behind the scenes. I love doing television, though. I don't necessarily love being in front of the camera.
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There's exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for television. When you have things to choose from, you typically go after the writing - unless you're going after the money. There are fewer opportunities in film to make money with good writing, unless you're an action hero.
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There's something about being at the tournaments that you don't really get on TV, although golf is a great sport to watch on television.
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Think of it: television producers joining with newspapers to tell stories. It's journalism of the future. Advertising will follow the crowd - the 'crowd' being viewers and readers, of course, which could bring revenue back into journalism.
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