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"Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there."
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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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"Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional."
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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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"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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"I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television."
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"I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories."
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"I don't even own a television. I'm proud of that."
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"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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"Well, you'll find the most boring part of it is the waiting, at least if it's in films anyway. Television's a lot faster, but the product... I don't think it's as good as a film."
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"If it was Europe, I just picked a country that I hadn't been to, but I didn't try to check up on what was going on in the country or anything like that. I just went and had a good time and met a lot of very nice people who are still my friends."
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"People think I'm crazy because I travel too much, but I haven't been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and I've tried to take care of it."
Travel

"You see I have to be in the clinic every Thursday and it's in Phoenix so I have to fly down or drive down. It has to be every Thursday for this damn stuff they're giving me."
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"I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway."
Career

"There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal."
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"When we did that kind of stuff our only rule was... Well, we didn't have any rules, really, but my rule, because I was the drinker of the group, was not at any time of the day before the night we're working."
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"I tell ya, I could have got some more jobs if I'd tried, but I went to Sweden instead."
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"So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right."
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"I think for writers who write that kind of stuff, they want to make changes. Look at Kris Kristofferson and Dylan. I mean, whole generations come along liking that stuff and that's great."
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