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"Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway."
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"Year Two is a critical year for any television show."
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"There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday."
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"Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not."
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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."
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"Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have."
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"I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan."
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"I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train."
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"So what I do is supervise the boarding process trying to get the shows the way I'd like them to be. And in some cases I've completely redone a board myself even though I'm not credited for it."
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"Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it."
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"An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think."
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"It's an end of the world I guess. I guess you'd currently call it disaster movie. But really they weren't disaster movies. They were more end of the world movies. This is more an end of the world movie."
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"Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway."
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"Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah."
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"Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects."
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"Anyway, the title The War of the Insect Gods came before we had that ending, before we knew they had become gods. That we knew the evolutionary cycle they went through. Before we even knew anything about that. We had an ending."
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"It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects."
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"The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous, beautiful creature."
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"It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily."
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"Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside."
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"Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will."
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