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"I'm very wary of news on television."
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"What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen."
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"Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is."
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"You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in."
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"You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on."
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"Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic."
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"The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it."
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"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not."
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"To the old, the new is usually bad news."
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"If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what's real."
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"News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all."
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"The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up."
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"News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television."
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"The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great."
First
"I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep."
People
"A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys."
Movies
"Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint."
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"I sang the songs in 'The Doors'."
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"Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success."
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"I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me."
Children
"That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe."
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