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

"I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead."

"You never know what's going to happen with television these days."

"I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room."

"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."

"I don't have anything from the television series. I treasure the videotapes from Columbia House."

"Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows."

"I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television."

"Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best."
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"I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience."

"And that's very important, too, 'cause a lot of people just assume everyone's a Democrat, or everyone's a Republican or whatever, and they're not. And that's a really important thing to adhere to."

"I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet."

"It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them."

"So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing."

"And I think a good writer's gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at it and work at it and work at it."

"But music raises a lot of issues. Music is something that matters to people a lot, and they put a lot of passion into it. And I think when you have an area like that, you're gonna find a lot of issues coming up."

"So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time."
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