#tele

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera. ↗

— Robert Ashley

#i #interested #kind #me #only

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts. ↗

— Bille August

#did #feature #feature film #film #finance

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. ↗

— Clive Barnes

#culture #democratic #entirely #everybody #first

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. ↗

— Milton Berle

#edison #him #lot #owe #television

Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project. ↗

— Alex Borstein

#because #completely #film #film acting #fun

Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters. ↗

— Julie Bowen

#best work #characters #greater #i #love

In television, the audience has to be comfortable with you, and I've managed to prove that I can be in American homes to some degree, and not necessarily where everyone knows me, either. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#audience #comfortable #degree #either #everyone

I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open. ↗

— Benjamin Bratt

#always #any #been #film #good

I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper. ↗

— David Brenner

#golf #i #like #people #stand

Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television? ↗

— Art Buchwald

#ever #person #rich #rich person #seen