#television

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#habits #house #indoor #inside #invention

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#commercials #give #haven #help #murder

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#contributing #done #information #much #need

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#button #everytime #like #pops #push

When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds. ↗

— Neil Innes

#come #dancing #decided #did #here

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

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