top of page
.png){kind=small}
"There was only so much television you could do."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Television quotes
"I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended."
"The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format."
"You never know what's going to happen with television these days."
"Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there."
"Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world."
"I don't have anything from the television series. I treasure the videotapes from Columbia House."
Explore more quotes by Jackie Cooper
"So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder."
"So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different."
"The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out."
"People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them."
"They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph."
"I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding."
bottom of page