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The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made by program directors, whereas art is autonomous. It may be dependent, but it knows no superiors.

Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.

Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium.

I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan.

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

I'd never seen any television before I started.

Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - art imitates life.

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.

I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.

I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

Well I'm not much of a singer. But it's been a really nice time to do film, television, theater and have it all happening at once. That wasn't planned but it just happens.

I think that every show on television has its place. I think Married With Children or, I don't know, The Nanny... some people want to go home, turn on the TV and be able to iron their clothes or grab a sandwich. Come out and catch a joke and not have to follow the story.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.

An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.

TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.

By exercise. I'll tell you one thing, you don't always have to be on the go. I sit around a lot, I read a lot, and I do watch television. But I also work out for two hours every day of my life, even when I'm on the road.

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.