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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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"Television's Mr. Filth: that's me."
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"I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television."
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"If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in."
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"Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional."
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"Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio."
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"Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days."
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"Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world."
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"Television is intensely personal."
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"Television is a medium because anything well done is rare."
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"I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series."
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"Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys."
Film
"About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs."
Music
"A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family."
Family
"I think Alison Krauss and her band are the best today. The same goes for Rick Skaggs and his band."
Today
"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."
Movies
"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."
Music
"And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really."
Worry
"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."
Thinking
"I pulled out of making movies in about '96 or '97."
Movies
"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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