Miranda Otto Quotes

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

Sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit-and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you—and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

I don't know if TV is where I see my format working.

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

I would like television to produce some itching pills rather than this endless outpouring of tranquilizers.

Television is so cool. Television is proving that we can be sophisticated and that people will watch, if it's good.

Sooner or later, everything turns into television.

Television leaves no external scars.

When television is good, nothing - not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers - nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there for a day without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.

If it's done right, radio can just be far more important than television.

There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment.

With anything, and especially with the pallet of viewers in watching anything on TV and film, you have to entertain them.

Doing a half-hour TV show is a dream.

'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

You know what shows today are missing? Stars.

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

If there's room for 30 reality shows, surely there's room for two amazing costume dramas.

There's not a lot of light on television.

If you make compelling television, they will come.

We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain.