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"During the course of my presidency crime has been the lowest it's been probably since the '60s. Butyou wouldn't know it if you were watching TV or looking at the internet, and you certainly wouldn't know it, listening to this past [Donald Trump's] campaign."
"I just don't watch a lot of TV."
"If something great comes off with the potential TV series, I will go straight to an investor this time and put my money in whatever they invest in."
"I like doing the crossword puzzle in the New York Times, not watching E! on TV."
"I'm really excited about my TV show. I wrote it with my best friend."
"I think TV shows have usurped films!"
"Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with."
"Too much TV hurts movies."
"I watch a lot of TV and I got some new hair products."
"I've been doing makeovers on TV for years and years and years. It's something I really know how to do. I also know personally what it's like to not feel good about yourself."
"I don't care if I ever work in TV again."
"People will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that."
"TV's "real" agenda is to be "liked," because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison."
"A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can."
"You can't make a good show based on pure verisimilitude, pure anti-drama. But you have to acknowledge a lot of ordinary life. Most TV doesn't do that."
"Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work."
"Before I got married, I never really watched TV. Now, my husband and I watch 'The Bachelor' together. I love 'The Soup' - that's where I get a lot of my pop culture - and 'Chelsea Lately."
"One of the great things about a TV series is that it's different to a movie - in a movie you obviously know the beginning, the middle and the end of what you're going to do. With a TV series it's unfolding, and you're discovering with every episode."
"The funny thing is that I had never actually watched TV."
"If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon."
