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Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, women have so little to do with what's going on behind the scenes.
Patricia Richardson
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I hate going to L.A. and dealing with the contempt people have for television and television actors. It's unbelievable the kind of attitude people take toward what is the most exciting medium we've got right now.
Michael Moriarty
Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.
Carter Burwell
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There's something to be said for going right into people's living rooms. I think actors have always loved that medium - you're right in there with people in their homes. A lot of very audacious work is being done on television.
Sigourney Weaver
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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
Thornton Wilder
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I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.
Sherri Saum
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We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that regard.
Win Butler
Today, television is the most powerful medium in the world. Tomorrow it will also be the most personal. There is no one future for television. It will be defined differently for everyone.
Anne Sweeney
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The popular image that Hollywood is ruined by difficult prima donna actors is nonsense. They're certainly very nice to directors. I can't say the same about producers, who I found difficult, paranoid, and certifiably insane, mostly.
Nigel Cole
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I have so much respect for television actors and directors. We're on set doing 16-hour days, and that's just what we do.
Michelle Borth
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People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.


Victoria Abril
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
Malcolm McDowell
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
Zubin Mehta
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I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre.
Michel Hazanavicius
A lot of directors in television have come up through the technical ranks. They have all the technical skills in the world. They're not all that familiar with actors.
Arthur Penn
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Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.
Helen Frankenthaler
When the script for 'The Wrestler' kept coming to me I said, This movie is so good if you put me in the film as a wrestler people are going to say, 'No credibility, Hulk Hogan isn't a good actor,' whatever Hollywood thinks of me.
Hulk Hogan
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In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to cut it.
Colm Meaney
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I've always believed that the director does whatever the hell he wants. That's what you sign on for as an actor - I can't stand it when you have actors who are trying to leverage directors into doing things they don't want to do.
Christian Bale
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We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going.


John Sexton