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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."

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

"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?"

"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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"And that's very important, too, 'cause a lot of people just assume everyone's a Democrat, or everyone's a Republican or whatever, and they're not. And that's a really important thing to adhere to."

"I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet."

"Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject."

"And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture."

"So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never been trotted out before, but it makes perfectly good sense."

"You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works."
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