Television Quotations | Page 4

The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I'm writing movies and television.

With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well.

Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.

So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers advice and from the counselors around.

Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.

Allowing your kids to watch TV doesn't have to mean they have no choice but to see commercials for junk food and alcohol.

It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show.

We're keeping coaches in place. Dana Altman sets the example. He understands you can accomplish just as much at Creighton as you can at Big State U. His program has been in postseason play for eight consecutive seasons. And kids in the Midwest see Valley schools playing in sold-out arenas, taking on the best teams in the nation, and getting more television exposure. It's coming together for us. We're having a bunch of programs mature at the same time.

Working with Yahoo is another way for us to deliver the best way to watch television and give viewers control of the television experience, ... the ability to easily schedule recordings for later viewing.