#levi

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#certain #cues #each #end #even

I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#i love #kinds #love #movies #narratives

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#cause #dreams #dust #eyes #his

When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history. ↗

— Carson Daly

#cheap #course #greatest #had #history

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#few #film #going #great #indie

Sometimes it's like watching a train wreck. You're uncomfortable, but you just can't help yourself. Some of those so-called bad interviews actually turned into compelling television. ↗

— Tony Danza

#bad #compelling #help #interviews #into

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. ↗

— Doris Day

#decay #levity #middle #middle age #without

We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother. ↗

— Dana Delany

#could #get #into #just #know

I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#appearances #been #campuses #college #college campuses

I definitely think there was some overacting on the part of the customers and the wait staff. The people who came in during the shooting were clearly there to have a moment on television, and that's fine. ↗

— Rocco DiSpirito

#clearly #customers #definitely #during #fine