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"I'd never seen any television before I started."
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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?"
"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."
"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."
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"The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write."
"The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it."
"I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories."
"You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five."
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