Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Hansen

Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.

Alain Resnais

My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

Al Michaels

Well, folks. That's the greatest open in the history of television -- bar none!

Dave Chappelle

I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.

David Shuster

Meet the Press is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.

Dave Barry

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.

Bryant Gumbel

There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.

Louis C. K.

There's a huge amount of work that goes into placating a network in regular television. It's literally 70% or 80% of your workload, is showing them the material, getting their notes and presenting it to them and making sure they weigh in. It's a huge amount of work.

Charley Pride

Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.

Feist

The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song.

Christopher Young

I don't care how inventive you are; once you introduce strings into the ensemble for a horror film, you're entering into a world where a tradition has been thoroughly established. So it's repeated use over the years is like, 'Oh God, another film with strings, another spooky movie with strings.'

Flea

The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about the fundamentals of music, theory and technique on a particular instrument, and playing in an ensemble or private setting.

Richard Gere

I thought it was an interesting ensemble of characters, all of them searching in their own bumbling way, like we all do, searching for God. I hadn't seen that movie before.

Chad Kimball

You can actually hear the ensemble uniting as one on that song.

Ricky Gervais

The A-list celebrities were always going to be the icing on the cake. It's always been more of an ensemble piece.

James Levine

I can imagine wanting to work with this ensemble and this company always.

Margot Robbie

I kind of feel like every time I do a film, it is me and an entire male ensemble cast.

Josh McDermitt

A lot of times, working in stand up, youre by yourself ,and so you just have to rely on yourself only but I like working in an ensemble.

Billy Campbell

To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling - they call it slow-burn storytelling.

Aristotle

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

Donald Davis

Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.

John Carpenter

Directing is all about storytelling. It's not about equipment, or anything else.

Kevin Spacey

Gaming is going into storytelling. It was a new audience.

Kevin Costner

The western will always be here. And it just depends on how good you make one. And one movie doesn't kill it. And one movie doesn't preserve it. It's storytelling. It's a very American thing. I'll continue to do it.

Julianna Baggott

The basic rule of storytelling is 'show, don't tell.

Margaret Atwood

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

Margaret Atwood

Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling.