Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

- Alfred Hitchcock

That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.

- Aaron Paul

It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.

- Avi

It just seems there's better things to do in your life than be on television if it's not interesting, if it's not challenging, if it's not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I'll stop making television.

- Anthony Bourdain

If there's anything about longevity in television, it's about knowing what to take and what to turn down, and what to stop.

- Anne Robinson

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

- Ann Landers

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

- Andy Warhol

I don't want to be agitated so much on television. I don't need to watch any more agitation.

- Andie MacDowell

There's not a lot of light on television.

- Andie MacDowell

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

- Alfred Hitchcock

If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.

- Aaron Sorkin

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

- Alfred Hitchcock

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

- Alfred Hitchcock

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

- Alfred Hitchcock

Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

I don't watch that much TV, so I can't compare one show to another. When I watch television, I watch people talking to one another usually or a science show where they show me microbes, you know. Microbes actually communicate quite a bit, and so there's a lot of talking going on.

- Alan Alda

Isn't television glamourous?

- Adam Savage

There is no dignity in television.

- Adam Savage

I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.

- Adam Carolla

Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.

- Aaron Sorkin