People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.

I don't watch television I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

At the University of Maryland my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design stage design or television design.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Life doesn't imitate art it imitates bad television.

Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery the feeling of righteous anger the feelings of pathos and sadness or sentimentality of being moved by something.

'Breaking Bad' is the best the greatest the most amazing thing I have ever watched on television.

I think women are amazing and women's friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film.

Listen a cable series is a beautiful thing because there's such amazing writing happening on television and it's a schedule that allows you to do a play or two. There's a reason everybody wants that job!

I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved and you can have great marriages and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.

I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.

I mean there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios networks are starting to throw more resources better writers more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

As a kid I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.' Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you're a young kid you get attached to these characters.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

In the age of television image becomes more important than substance.

In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre everything is so advertised so trailed that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.

I hate to mention age but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

In the television age the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.