American Television Quotes:

The Simpsons is the best thing on American television.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Television, Best Things, American Television

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Patriotic, Thinking, Alaska, American Television

May the Force be with you.

- George Lucas

source: Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

topic: Movie, Film History, Psychics, Chosen One, Best Film

The days of television as we knew it growing up are over. You have a bigger, wider world audience on the Internet, larger than any American television series. People don't watch television in the same context as before. Nowadays they watch their television on the Internet at their convenience. That's the whole wave, and it's now - not the future.

- Criss Angel

topic: Growing Up, People, Over You, American Television

I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six episodes of an hour drama, maybe sometimes eight, but never twenty-two, so I was petrified of that.

- Lennie James

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Drama, Ghost Stories, Eight, American Television, Twenty Two

Even though I'm English, I've all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general.

- Dominic West

source: "Dominic West on The Hour, John Carter, and yes, The Wire". Interview with Will Harris, tv.avclub.com. November 26, 2012.

topic: Culture, Television, Exposed, American Television

American television is very much created by the writers, just the volume of it. The writers are so key. You're just trying to do something that serves that script. And in general, film isn't all about the script, really.

- Richard Ayoade

topic: Keys, Trying, Television, American Television

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is

- Isaac Mizrahi

topic: Ethnicity, Choices, Television, American Food, American Television

I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.

- Toni Collette

topic: Long, Doe, Television, American Television

American television really is pathetic.

- Brian Eno

topic: Television, Pathetic, American Television

Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.

- Jean Baudrillard

source: Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.49, Verso

topic: Country, Laughter, Taken, Stock Exchange, Consternation

I wanted to branch out into American television, specifically because you get to develop a character for a longer period of time and you get to develop a relationship with the audience.

- Joseph Morgan

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Character, Television, Branches, American Television

The only time I was really surprised was the reaction to the [shoot dedicated to the] BP oil [spill in 2010]. I didn't expect it at all. It was for the August issue, perhaps one of the less relevant months, but there was so much buzz. It was picked up all over the American television, but I defended my position. I don't understand those that say that a magazine such as Vogue should not talk about these things.

- Franca Sozzani

source: Source: wwd.com

topic: August, Oil, Issues, American Television

I think I've actually benefited from Australia being a kind of combination of both British and American culture. We kind of got the best of both British and American television and books, science fiction and fantasy, and so on. So I'm familiar with a lot of, for example, American books and television that a British author of my generation might not be.

- Garth Nix

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Book, Thinking, Australia, American Television, Science Fiction And Fantasy

Ratings to me are a little like the Chinese Government. I don't fully understand what makes a rating go. I don't know what makes the American television audience respond to one person and not t another. There very seldom are great differences between many television personalities.

- Tom Brokaw

topic: Differences, Government, Personality, Chinese Government, American Television

I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost concede before they start: 'Well, it won't be good, but at least it'll be good-looking. We'll have nice-looking girls in tight shirts with F.B.I. badges and fit-looking guys with lots of hair gel vaulting over things.'

- Hugh Laurie

topic: Girl, Nice, Thinking, American Television, Hair Gel

There's definitely a wave of Brits doing great work on American television, and I wouldn't mind being one of them!

- Rob James-Collier

source: "'Downton Abbey' Cast Spills Secrets on Hollywood Ambitions at Season 3's U.S. Premiere". www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 10, 2012.

topic: Mind, Television, Wave, American Television

Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.

- Graham Norton

topic: Thinking, Television, Tvs, American Television

There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.

- Peter Ustinov

topic: Jesus, Machines, Television, Evangelical, Credentials

What I can say that's different in American television... in Britain, they wouldn't cancel something after a couple of episodes. In the States they would. They would just decide it's not working, take it off and put something else in on the fall schedule.

- John Barrowman

topic: Couple, Fall, Different, American Television

I think the reality is Michael Jackson's humanity is so deep, the implications and inferences of his art so monumentally and magnificently global, that nothing American television could do to besmirch his character could ever, if you will, deny the legitimate genius that he represents and America has responded, as indeed has the globe.

- Michael Eric Dyson

topic: Art, Character, Reality, American Television

American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work; obviously, in the case of 'The Office,' it did. But a lot of times, it doesn't really work.

- Chris Hardwick

topic: Office, Trying, Television, American Television, British Comedy

That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by every American television set.

- Robert Neelly Bellah

source: Robert Neelly Bellah (1975). “The broken covenant: American civil religion in time of trial”, Harper San Francisco

topic: Philosophy, Acquisition, Television, Overconsumption, American Television

The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.

- Fredric Jameson

source: Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

topic: Heart, Clothes, Culture, Standardization, American Television

Unlike any other player on the board, the press has no oversight, no mandate, few penalties, and even fewer consequences. Because there are not enough reporters on the ground, too many bureaus have outsourced both their reporting and standards to third party stringers whose spectacular videos of explosions and inflated body counts have shown up on both jihadist recruiting sites and American television screens, simultaneously.

- Matt Sanchez

source: "AP Reports on the Wrong Massacre" by Jack Kelly, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 6, 2007.

topic: Party, Player, Boards, Outsourced, Third Parties

I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.

- Julian Fellowes

topic: Thinking, Television, World, Reinvention, American Television

The good thing is that I really think that American television is in kind of a second golden age. Even though there's a lot of reality and all those contest shows, which aren't my kind of shows, the scripted stuff that's going on is so good right now because of basic cable. Everyone has stepped it up and realised that people like quality.

- Paul Feig

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Reality, Thinking, People, American Television

It's [Into the Badlands] something that's very, very different and I think that's why it divided critics initially because they didn't understand it or get it. They didn't understand or have a knowledge of what we were trying to do. Bringing in the Asian martial arts aesthetic to American television. For us, these are the people who will make the show a hit or a failure in future seasons. So it's for us to respect them and interact and see what they have to say.

- Miles Millar

topic: Art, Thinking, People, American Television

Opera on television in Europe is very important. If you think about it in the broadest sense: a lot of the dramas made in India with music are practically operas. They're not sung but they have a very big appeal. I don't know why American television people are so stupid but at the moment, they just seem to have some sort of a block. They just do what they do and they do it for a certain number of years. Then it wears out and they try something else. It's just a matter of time I think.

- Robert Ashley

topic: Drama, Stupid, Block, American Television

It's the open ocean right now because it's so unique. It's a really unique way of doing American television. There are a million possibilities. We can stay with the cops. We can introduce new worlds. And, who knows where it will end.

- Veena Sud

topic: Ocean, Unique, Way, American Television

I hope there's a window that opens in American television where the rest of the world is viewed in a less censored light. There is something about the world outside the United States that is not understood here - that seems threatening to Americans.

- Rula Jebreal

topic: Light, United States, Television, American Television

I make my living doing freelance directing for North American television shot in Toronto, series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Twilight Zone, and so forth.

- Atom Egoyan

source: Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

topic: Hitchcock, Twilight Zone, American Television

American television is a huge product that is exported around the world and what that means is that what our movies and films say about who women [are] has global ramifications. There is a burden and a responsibility when you are someone who is very aware of how far we've yet to travel in granting women equal rights and equal respect and you are creating cultural products. You have to be responsible and be aware of the message that you are sending out.

- Liz W. Garcia

topic: Mean, Responsibility, Creating, Equal Respect, Ramifications

[Into the Badlands] wasn't going to be two days of a splinter unit at the end of the shoot. The action and the martial arts had to be integral to the show. That's what makes it unique, that's what makes it special and different and ground-breaking. No one has attempted this before on American television.

- Miles Millar

topic: Art, Unique, Two, American Television