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Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.

Television's not going read stories to you.

Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.

Television is simply automated daydreaming.

Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.

Asylum was good exposure for me and it is still shown quite often on television. I remember the special effects people had fun making a little doll that looked like me - which is not so easy - and it had to move along the floor.

I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.

We met and married when both of us knew exactly what our jobs were. He was only 32, but he'd been all over the place. I'd been working on films and television shows all over the world.

Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.

The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.

I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.

I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years.

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.