In the public, it seems to be painted that when minorities get pregnant, they need to get abortions, especially when it comes to teen pregnancy. It’s like, when black girls are pregnant, it’s like a statistic, but when white girls get pregnant, they get a TV show.
I did a TV show called ‘Unit 1.’ It wasn’t a bad experience, but yes, the first season I didn’t have a good time because I was coming from Nicolas Winding Refn films where the corners were sharp and radical, but now we had round corners.
One thing that cable has done is trained the audience that, when a TV show is on, it should be on.
I wish I could come home to a life that looks like a TV show. I wish I could see my television family waiting for me, where no one fights and no one screams, no one lies and no one leaves.
I think a lot of social media creators have always been, like, content and haven’t pushed the limits because no one else had pushed the limits before. I say to myself, ‘How can I create my own TV show online every day and actually make it a real production and put effort into it?’
Having a reality TV show, everyone feels like they know you, but that’s only 10% of my life. There’s a whole other side of me that people don’t see.
What resonates with me whenever I watch a great movie or TV show is the balance of inevitability and unpredictability. And it’s a very delicate balance.
When I create a TV show, it’s so that I can write it. I’m not an empire builder; my writing staff is usually a combination of two kinds of people – experts in the world the show is set in, and young writers who will not be unhappy if they’re not writing scripts.
I want to go wherever there’s great work. I’m a huge fan of film primarily. But you can get a great TV show and get attached to it. Making a great film is forever, though, so I always want to be part of film. It’s my first love.
But long story short, I didn’t start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.
I’m not really into reality shows. ‘Nip Tuck’ is my favorite TV show.
In my own life, hate has consumed me at times. Or envy. When my TV show was canceled, I didn’t think it deserved to be canceled because people liked it. It was canceled for the wrong reasons, you know? I was consumed with hate for about a year.
I like the consistency of a TV show, but I like it for three months out of my year, not nine.
Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that’s the least objectionable to them. They’re not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they’ll go to bed unhappy.
Eddie Murphy did ’48 Hrs.’ because that was the only movie offered to him. And he killed it. Bill Cosby did ‘I Spy’ because that was the TV show he was offered. But now, there are networks dedicated to comedy, and the Internet… it’s so easy for comedians to not do things that aren’t true to them.
But I don’t only get recognized for ‘Friday the 13th.’ I was on a TV show called’ I’ve Got a Secret.’ I was on that show for ten or eleven years. The older people always remember me from that.
In the States I got asked to do every TV show.
It’s challenging to judge a TV show because you don’t have any lines. You just have to be yourself.
At one point, some years ago, a nice gentleman had it in mind to do ‘Outlander’ the musical. His idea was to start with a CD of what you call a song cycle, with a dozen high points of the projected show. It turned out very well, though we had to stop doing it when the TV show came along.
This election ain’t no stinkin’ TV show.
The truth is that when writing a TV show or a film you are a part of a team. And though you might be the architect who makes the initial drawings, somewhere along the line it all has to be given up, handed over. To the costume department and the actors, the art department, the director and the producers.
I believe if you can have an open dialogue about anything, whether it’s a book or a movie or TV show, it’s this door that suddenly opens your mind to new ideas.
My favorite TV show is probably ‘Power.’
Many years ago, Bill Gates said that one day we’d be able to click on the shoes of a character in a TV show and buy them online. Whether that happens or not, are you thinking about new ways to combine your assets in programming, customer knowledge, and technology?
The greatest preparation for a TV show is to already have one season behind you.
There are times where we are shooting a TV show, and it goes very fast. But everybody has this freedom to still be artists.
Just like I tell my daughters, first impressions are important, so once it’s out there, whether it’s a picture or a TV show, it’s there; it’s gonna be out there forever.
There was a time when I didn’t find a single, interesting Hindi TV show to watch, and ended up binging on American TV. Now, with online video streaming services, one is spoilt for choice, and it’s getting better in terms of the wide variety of content to satisfy the diverse tastes of its audience.
The best complement I ever got from the public or producers or directors is that I just totally blend in and become the character and they don’t notice me and that the play happens or the movie happens or the TV show happens.
I did a guest thing on ‘My Name Is Earl,’ and there is something about being involved in a TV show that’s in the midst of its popularity that frees up the creative process.
My favourite TV show is ‘Pretty Little Liars,’ and I actually made a guest appearance on it. I didn’t really have lines for my character, but I definitely want to get more into those kinds of shows.
The closest I’ve come to being on a reality TV show is C-SPAN’s live coverage of the Senate floor.
I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children’s TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.
I’m not an extravagant person. You don’t get a chance to spend money when you’re working on a TV show.
I think the way British wrestling lost its way in the mid ’80s was that the athleticism and the sporting side to the drama kind of went away and it almost became a joke of a TV show.
I’m really not that special. Really, I’m not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show.
Of every movie that I’ve seen multiple times, of every TV show that I was obsessed with, I don’t think I was ever obsessed with anything more than ‘Flowers in the Attic,’ which I read 13 times between fourth grade and senior year.
I’m not going to leave one of the best shows to do another TV show.
I thought, ‘As if I’m going to win a TV show, let alone get a record deal.’ I’m going to go on TV with all these beautiful pop star-looking people? I’ll never win.
My favorite TV show is probably ‘Glee.’ I’m a Gleek, like everyone else!
I thought my first few jobs would just be off, off, off, off, off broadway. And by chance and how the world works, I ended up on a TV show instead.
I’m lucky because I had blonde hair for a while for this TV show I was doing – they had me dye my hair blonde – and every audition I was going out for was bleach blonde. The mean girl, the pretty girlfriend, and the dumb cheerleader.
In theater, you can be free. That’s how Lin-Manuel Miranda got to do the most revolutionary piece of theater with ‘Hamilton’: color-blind casting in roles in which they would never cast Latinos if it were a film or TV show. It just goes to show that Hollywood and cable are way behind.
I don’t care what TV show you work on, even a movie for that matter, it’s all about time and money eventually.
I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I’ve started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I’ve written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.
There’s two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say.
Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.
I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn’t anything I really wanted to do. I want to tell a good story, whether it’s a TV show, a movie, whatever. That’s really my No. 1 criteria.
When I first started doing comedy years ago, I used to be the biggest Michael Richards fan. I used to love this dude. He was on a TV show called ‘Fridays,’ and man, he was tall and lanky – and I was tall and lanky. I love physical comedy, and he was a physical comedian, and I said, ‘Man, I love this guy.’
I’m an avid collector of toys. I got everything. Name it. From the Easy Bake Oven to Barbies to every TV show doll, racing cars… I’ve been collecting since I was a little kid.
Celebrity has lost its value – all you have to do is go on a reality TV show for six weeks and everybody knows your name.
I realized I don’t want anyone to control my destiny, whether it’s a network TV show or not. I would rather invest in my own projects and if they fail, they fail on their own merits, not because somebody else mangled it.
