Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.
Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.
I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.
Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.
The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.
Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.
I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.
I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me.
Often times people complain about the lack of time in television, but I have to say, you don't have any more time to film in feature films then you do in television. It's just a question of how many scenes you'll be doing in the course of a day.