If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.
Rex Stout

Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.
Shelley Winters

The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.
Andrzej Wajda

In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way.
Andrzej Wajda

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.
Andrzej Wajda

In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.
Andrzej Wajda

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.
Andrzej Wajda

At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.
Andrzej Wajda

News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.
Val Kilmer

It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.
Ellen Burstyn

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.
Shimon Peres

Television speeded everything up.
Ruth Handler

I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.
Robert Redford

I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.
Jan Hammer

I have a new television show in the works, and that is all I can say right now.
Angie Stone

I got an early education from television.
Debra Wilson

Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.
Marcus Allen

It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,.
Alexis Bledel

I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.
Alexandra Paul

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?
Nicholas Johnson