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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."
"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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"There will always be another group of kids going to college, drinking beer, and discovering that movie. Many of them have never even heard of SCTV."
"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."
"My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing."
"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."
"On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own 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."
"I think Alison Krauss and her band are the best today. The same goes for Rick Skaggs and his band."
"Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys."
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