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"I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor."
"In modern society most of us don't want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other things like religion, sports, politics, a book - we want to forget ourselves. Anytime we have leisure, we want to invite something else to enter us, opening ourselves to the television and telling the television to come and colonize us."
"Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel."
"When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they've lost their grip."
"When I'm not working, I am the laziest person. I can literally lie on a couch and watch television for 15 hours."
"Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television."
"God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time."
"I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball."
"We're not a media company. We don't own media. We don't own music. We don't own films or television. We're not a media company. We're just Apple."
"The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction."
"Television isn't my career. Business is."
"A human being is like a television set with millions of channels.... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty."
"If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives."
"If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level."
"With "We Are The World," I can't even eat when I watch that on television. If I'm eatin' some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that."
"You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day."
"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want."
"I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on."
"It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on."
"I never say I work in television, I say I get to work in television."
