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We have a generation of black actors playing leading roles on film and TV - Idris Elba, Chiwetel Ejiofor - which is great and is breaking the mould.
David Harewood
Great
Generation
Black
TV
Leading
Mould
Roles
Which
Breaking
Film
Actor
Film And TV
Playing
I like America; I enjoy being there. Some people can't stand the insincerity - I love the waiter asking me how my day has been, the can-do culture there. I love the fact that again, you are visible in America. You turn the TV on, there are black politicians, black policemen, black soldiers.
David Harewood
Love
Day
Me
You
Culture
People
Black
Some People
Politicians
Enjoy
Soldiers
Visible
Has-Been
TV
Some
Insincerity
Fact
Like
Policemen
How
Been
Waiter
Can-Do
America
Being
Again
Turn
Asking
Stand
Being There
When I go back to theater, I feel good about myself. When I do films or TV, it's to make a little bread to pay my mortgage or whatever, and when I've made the money, I do theater again. And when I get a part I like, a part I can work on, that satisfies me. I feed good about myself.
David Hedison
Work
Myself
Good
Me
Feel Good
Money
Made
Whatever
Pay
Films
Back
TV
About
Part
Feed
Feel
Mortgage
Like
Make
Go
Get
Bread
Theater
Again
Little
Satisfies
I was, in my day, one of the best directors of episodic TV around.
David Hemmings
Best
Day
TV
Directors
Day One
Around
Episodic
TV has a three storyline structure, but 'The Killing' takes on that structure with such ambition.
David Hewson
Three
Ambition
TV
Structure
Takes
Storyline
We get the impression through film and TV that Americans are violent gangsters with guns or upper-middle-class people in romcoms. I really liked the people. They were really warm. They could have been Brits. I mean that in the nicest possible way.
David Jason
People
Brits
Way
Possible
TV
Guns
Could
Through
Liked
Were
Been
Impression
Get
American
Mean
Warm
Really
Gangsters
Nicest
Film
Film And TV
Violent
I'm an actor, and so of course I want to see TV companies making good dramas. I want that to be a priority.
David Jason
Good
Dramas
TV
See
Course
Making
Priority
Want
Companies
Actor
Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a little bit more organically. You start from the beginning to the end, beginning, middle and end.
David Labrava
You
Writing
Beginning
Bit
TV
TV Show
Totally
More
Features
Write
Doing
End
Than
Just
Middle
Different
Little
Little Bit
Organically
Show
Start
Started
Oh yeah, I grew up with comics. You know, I always like to describe myself as a 'narrative junkie.' I love novels, I love comics, movies, TV. If it's a good story, I'm hooked.
David Liss
Love
Myself
Good
You
Hooked
TV
Good Story
Like
Know
Narrative
Always
Yeah
Comics
Up
Oh
Oh Yeah
Grew
Story
Movies
Describe
Novels
I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately.
David Morse
You
People
Approach
OK
TV
Restaurant
Feel
Know
How
Coming
Up
Sitting
Difference
Unfortunately
Movies
Means
Even
Compared
Star
I've had the chance to work with Christopher Plummer, one of the great stage and film actors, a couple of times, including on 'Prototype,' the first TV movie I ever did. It was science fiction in the Ray Bradbury sense, written by the famous team who created Columbo, Levinson, and Link.
David Morse
Work
Great
Science
First
Stage
Sense
Christopher
TV
Had
Written
Ray
Ray Bradbury
Couple
Science Fiction
Prototype
Link
Times
Did
Famous
Fiction
Movie
Created
Team
Who
Including
Film
Actor
Film Actors
Ever
Chance
So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.
David R. Ellis
Car
Whatever
TV
Doing
Lot
Just
Then
Helicopter
Episodic
Started
I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.
David Schwimmer
Sad
Love
Time
TV
Find
TV Show
Falling
Falling In Love
America
Same
Same Time
Flattering
Interesting
Little
Show
I think people wanted to see some specificity in faith on TV.
David Seltzer
Faith
People
Think
TV
See
Some
Wanted
Specificity
I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - it's just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic.
David Suchet
Death
Nature
You
Entertainment
Reality
People
Dangerous
Think
Mindless
TV
Status
Constantly
Idea
Maintain
Because
Very
Celebrity
Controversial
Just
Reality TV
Popular
It was so boring, and 'Dragonheart' was so unchallenging - there was no research involved or any rehearsal. So I was in my hotel room every night with no English-language TV except 'Beavis and Butt-head' at 10 o'clock every night.
David Thewlis
Research
Every
TV
Boring
Except
Hotel
Hotel Room
Involved
Any
Room
Rehearsal
Every Night
Night
I got hooked to American news like a great TV season. It plays like fiction. I would come home from work, and I would put it on, and I would stay up until 2 in the morning watching it and get up in the morning and watch it.
David Thewlis
Work
Home
Great
News
Morning
Hooked
TV
Would
Stay
Put
Come
Like
Until
Got
Up
Get
American
Fiction
Season
Watch
Watching
Plays
I wanted to do 'Fargo' rather than do a TV production. I've been offered TV things over the years, but usually, that's about that I don't want to be away from home for that long because it's a long time to be away your home country and my family.
David Thewlis
Time
Home
Family
Long
Long Time
Country
TV
About
Rather
Over
Because
Been
Years
Offered
Than
Want
Wanted
Production
Your
Fargo
Away
Things
I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first.
David Walliams
Comedy
First
TV
Recommend
Would
Anyone
Wants
Who
Radio
I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.
David Walliams
Failure
You
Business
Fear
Comedy
Air
Out
TV
Willing
TV Shows
Risk
Risking
Risky
Factor
Comedian
Well
Make
Always
Lot
Trying
Going
Improvising
Quite
Quite A Lot
Much
Shows
Thin
I've done panel shows, which I enjoy, and on those you're recording half-an-hour of TV and sometimes they film for two hours. But with 'Britain's Got Talent,' you're on camera for eight hours, with a large theatre audience watching - and in between you're being filmed for ITV2 as you eat your lunch.
David Walliams
You
Theatre
Sometimes
Recording
Enjoy
Lunch
Panel
Those
TV
Eat
Between
Talent
Hours
Audience
Got
Camera
Done
Being
Eight
In-Between
Which
Your
Large
Shows
Film
Watching
Britain
Two
TV has lost a lot of its self-confidence as its power has been eroded by the internet.
David Walliams
Internet
Power
Lost
Has-Been
TV
Self-Confidence
Been
Eroded
Lot
I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.
David Zucker
Old
Made
Think
Thinking
Laugh
TV
Brothers
Inspired
Marx
Hour
Like
Liked
Always
Were
Up
Grew
Movies
Us
Serious
Zero
Thing
Things
Funniest
Our producer Jon Davison thought it would be a good idea to put in additional TV scenes. So, they sent me a tape of these additional TV scenes, and I watched them, and I didn't think they were that great. I didn't think it was worth putting them in.
David Zucker
Good
Great
Me
Worth
Thought
Think
Additional
Our
TV
Would
Would-Be
Scenes
Jon
Put
Putting
Idea
Were
Tape
Sent
Them
Producer
Watched
Good Idea
I hate watching myself on TV.
Davinia Taylor
Myself
Hate
TV
Watching
I kind of miss that whole NXT thing. When I was there, it was Florida Championship Wrestling with Seth Rollins and the other guys who were there. I wrestled on, like, local-access Florida TV in front of 30 people. It was a tiny little situation.
Dean Ambrose
People
Situation
Other
Kind
TV
Guys
Wrestling
Miss
Like
Were
Front
Tiny
Little
Who
Whole
Thing
Florida
Championship
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