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"Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best."
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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."
"TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives it's like a marriage."
"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."
"Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress."
"Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have."
"I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead."
"I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it."
"It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don't they call somebody in their area? Don't they know about that?"
"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."
"The movie, if I recall, didn't have to do with the television show because there were concerns from everyone that they didn't want it to be like the TV show."
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"The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it."
"TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press."
"Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies."
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