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"I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed."
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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."

"I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train."

"Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it."

"An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think."

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

"Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user."

"If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer."

"We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television."
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"What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material."

"Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped."

"When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking."

"The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me."

"Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys."

"I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock."

"On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material."
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