Tvs Quotes - Page 11

• TV is very much my first love. I love this world. It's where writers have the most creative control, and I just love that.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  First Love, Creative, World

  Source: collider.com

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• When you're writing for a TV show, what's great is that you always know what actor you're writing to.

  Michael Brandt

  Writing, Tv Shows, Actors

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• I think a reason why TV is exciting and getting so much better is because we [authors] get to play off of an actor's strengths and challenge them on their weaknesses. On a feature [film], you don't necessarily get to do that. You hope that they cast the right guy, who comes in and plays your part.

  Michael Brandt

  Thinking, Play, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.

  Doug Liman

  Falling In Love, Character, Tv Shows

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't really watch anything on TV. It's not really a priority for me.

  Alan Ritchson

  Priorities, Watches

  Source: collider.com

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• My wife says I'm much happier when I'm not a regular on a TV show.

  Alan Dale

  Tv Shows, Wife, My Wife

  "Alan Dale: The Nicest Bad Guy in The Biz". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 6, 2013.

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• I am very careful not to wantonly encourage people to join my industry, or to aspire to work in TV. I am certain that, generally speaking, the wage pressure in the television news industry is downward.

  Ali Velshi

  People, News, Television

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I don't know a lot of guys who started out as a hard rock and roller with a white stripe in their hair. Suddenly I do a TV movie and I wake up the next day and I'm a teen idol, like I'd laid on a beach in California all my life waiting for that to happen.

  Rex Smith

  Beach, Hair, Rocks

  "New Again: Rex Smith". Interview with Andy Warhol and Bob Colacello, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 20, 1981.

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• Storytelling is all about using the imagination, for me at least it is. That's why I'm bored sometimes to see movies. I'm bored to see TV. I never see TV. I see news sometimes. I'm sorry to say, I work in this business and I love working in it, but I haven't seen a movie in so many years.

  Peter Stormare

  Sorry, Years, Imagination

  Source: collider.com

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• TV and film for me are not as exciting as the live stand-up show and getting the immediate reaction of the crowd. TV is a lot of hurry up and wait for your shot and less immediate reaction from people.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  People, Waiting, Crowds

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• I give [Barack Obama] a 10 [on a scale of 1 to 10] because he's not God, and he inherited a couple of wars, and a financial mess.I want to see him curse somebody out on TV. You can't finesse a bull. He's gotta throw down. He's in the shark tank.

  Tracy Morgan

  Couple, War, Sharks

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• I never really watched the TV series.

  Zoe Saldana

  Tv Series, Series

  "Zoe Saldana ‘Star Trek’ Interview with Kam Williams". newsblaze.com. May 04, 2009.

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• Whatever is being investigated, created or produced now, in movies or TV, needs to consider the context in which it is being distributed. It's not a vacuum. There are certain universal themes of love, conflict, loyalty or family that are everlasting and that need to be presented in a way that makes it feel relevant, even if it's a period piece. You need to consider what context that film, that story and those characters are being seen in.

  J. J. Abrams

  Loyalty, Character, Vacuums

  "J.J. Abrams talks STAR TREK 2, FRINGE, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 4 and More!". Interview, collider.com. October 8, 2009.

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• In my opinion, visual effects are great when it compliments a good story, and action is great when it compliments a good story, but just to have them for the sake of having them, it gets a little boring, especially if you're talking a TV series. At least with a movie that's an hour and a half to two hours, you see it and you're impressed, and then you're out. With a series, if it's only that, week after week after week, there's nothing there to bring you back. You have to get invested in the characters and care about them and want to follow them.

  Drew Roy

  Character, Talking, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• For me, if the writing and - by extension - the subject matter and the characters are all good, it doesn't matter if it's film or TV. Each medium has great things going for it.

  Adam Croasdell

  Writing, Character, Going For It

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• Each form of the acting is different. I think it keeps your mind active. TV, film and theater are different disciplines, as are independent films, opposed to studio films. There are differences in the size and the genre, or a period drama as opposed to a contemporary drama, or the types of characters.

  Luke Evans

  Drama, Character, Independent

  Source: collider.com

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• I come from a very sporty background because my mom is a gymnastics teacher. So growing up I was never sitting watching TV in the afternoons. I always played ball outside in the backyard.

  Gal Gadot

  Mom, Teacher, Growing Up

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I ended my career, I wouldn't mind doing a TV series if it was a western and I played a mute gunfighter so I wouldn't have to remember lines every week.

  Robert Duvall

  Careers, Mind, Lines

  "Robert Duvall’s talks about his faith-themed film “Seven Days in Utopia” - and why he’s not into “message movies”". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. December, 2012.

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• I love producing my kids and my wife's TV show. I love doing that. I think that's my most natural space in the business. I would say the most natural space for me is producing or editing. That's just where I thrive.

  Willi Smith

  Kids, Thinking, Editing

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• All of a sudden Mindy [Kaling] was writing on The Office and had sold a TV show. When we'd try to write shows, we'd jokingly call the word documents "Hit Show." We just couldn't crack the code.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Writing, Tv Shows, Office

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One reason I avoid the American TV talk show circuit, when I'm over there, is that the tabloids and the gossip mill are always churning with new, true, or untrue stories about new loves, old loves, pending marriages, divorces, trial separations, flings and affairs with people of every description. I'm not into any of that.

  George Harrison

  Divorce, People, Gossip

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• Whether it's a lower or higher budget project, a TV show or a film, the words on the page are the same to me and I approach the work in the same way. My job is to lift the character from the page, whether it's a TV or film script.

  Michael Eklund

  Jobs, Character, Tv Shows

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• With a film, you know the beginning, middle and end of your character's arc. But on a TV show, you have no idea where they're going to end up.

  Michael Eklund

  Character, Tv Shows, Ideas

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• I'm not the sort of bloke who spends a long time in the bathroom. I've never used a face cream in my life and I don't like it when I go on TV and they offer me make-up. I tell 'em, 'No thanks.'

  Ray Winstone

  Long, Faces, Ems

  "Ray Winstone: My Daughters Are Geezer Birds". Interview with Paula Kerr, www.mirror.co.uk. December 07, 2008.

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• Certain kinds of things that the novel used to do, which was, "Oh, I'm living out here in West Nowhere, Nebraska and I'm curious how the upper class in New York City lives, I guess I'll read a novel about it." We don't have to do that now. You just turn on the TV. Turn on Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous. You can get that information anywhere. Novels don't have to do that anymore.

  Jonathan Franzen

  New York, Class, Cities

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 1, 2010.

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