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"Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment."
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"Television's not going read stories to you."
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"Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment."
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"I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing."
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"I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan."
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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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"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."
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"I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it."
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"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book."
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"In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot."
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"Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it."
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"Television's not going read stories to you."
Television
"Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is."
News
"Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment."
Television
"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."
Work
"Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor."
Job
"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."
Music
"Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject."
Want
"Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff."
Time
"It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news."
News
"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."
Time
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