Louis MacNeice Quotes

Television is to news as a bumper sticker is to Shakespeare.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.

I never considered a career in broadcasting, not even as a kid.

I have had a lot of experience in broadcasting.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks. If a country has reached a high degree of industrialization the whole scene changes. The day after the fall of Khrushchev, the editors of Pravda, Izvestiia, the heads of the radio and television were replaced; the army wasn't called out. Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications.

I have done a lot of street theatre and plays and interacted with the public through radio and television.

I worked for the BBC for 30 years.

I always wanted to have a career in print and as a broadcaster.

I'm obsessed with broadcasting.

TV is just an incredible media.

If I weren't musical, then I would have just published a book, you know? But I'm lucky enough to play piano, and so I use piano to convert my poems.

I studied broadcast journalism at Pepperdine University. After a short career in television with MTV and later on at FX Network, I found my true calling in Eventbrite.

Yeah, I think the arts and literature have always been irrevocably connected. Because if you think about it, every film script, every play, every song starts as words on the page before it is ever performed or filmed or sung.

A song isn't a newspaper. It might feel direct, but it's not.

Being in somebody else's thing and saying their words and not having any right to change it - I don't know how I'd deal with that. I'd like to think I could do it, but I just know I've got a dead particular taste.

My mentor is Alastair Burnet, the greatest news anchor Britain has had.

When I'm playing, I play what I want, but I make sure that the crowd is going to love it at the same time. It's like a balancing act, a mix of two, a perfect circle... if you do it right.

I would call myself a radio performer who has just jumped in front of the camera and is very happy.

TV is one of the biggest mediums, and over time, it will get bigger.

I am interested in the press and what they do.

I just love being in the arts.