Pastoral Resources

Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.

It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important.

I'd love to star in a television series of my own. I love the idea of living with a character for a number of years, watching him grow.

I personally don't have a problem with naked bodies on television.

We were the laughingstock of that first season... It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television.

I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.

Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.

For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.

Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.

You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.

I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day.

Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.

Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.

The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.