The introduction of Harriet Tubman is going to be very exciting, she's a real life superhero so for us to be able to feature her this season is groundbreaking for a television series.
Apparently, when Twin Peaks was on the air in Spain, something like 50 percent of televisions were tuned to it.
Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape.
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.
You hope to see an arc of growth in your ability to become a character on television.
Science is given almost no visibility in the media. If a Martian came down to Earth and watched television, he'd come to the conclusion that all the world's society is based on Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. He'd be amazed that our society hasn't collapsed.
There aren't very many women of color in positions of power, period. Much less on television.
I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.
In its effect on family relationships, in its facilitation of parental withdrawal from an active role in the socialization of their children, and in its replacement of family rituals and special events, television has played an important role in the disintegration of the American family.
You know daytime television? You know what it's supposed to be for? It's to keep unemployed people happy. It's supposed to stop them running to the social security demanding mad luxuries like cookers and windows.
I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.
People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.
Evil Dead" needs a very specific home. Movies are mostly unrated, but on television who the heck was doing that stuff? And now the doors opened a little bit with companies like Starz. They were the only suitor that was going to let us have content that was unrestricted.
I don't like television and movies where it's like, "Well, that was entertaining, but when I think back on it, that didn't really make sense and it's empty. " That's like junk food, to me.
Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
I do believe that we’re in a true golden era of television, and I think it started with Hill Street.
I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.
Television in its present form. . . [is] the opiate of the people of the United States.
The reason 'The Carol Burnett Show' did so well in the ratings is because people were looking for that comfort zone when the whole family sat around and watched television and enjoyed it.