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"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."
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"Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around."
"TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives it's like a marriage."
"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."
"Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress."
"Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have."
"I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead."
"I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it."
"It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don't they call somebody in their area? Don't they know about that?"
"The movie, if I recall, didn't have to do with the television show because there were concerns from everyone that they didn't want it to be like the TV show."
"We're just dealing with the kind of warp and woof of television ratings."
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"It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles."
"The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading."
"All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is."
"I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well."
"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read."
"I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster."
"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."
"Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds."
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