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While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that.

There's certain things that you can do on cable that you can't do here on network TV, so then you have to think outside the box a little bit.

Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.

You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film... at least in Hollywood studio films.

Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.

I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old.

If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamental freedom. It has to do with protection of the average citizen against abuses.

TV directing is fine because you can come in and do a TV show in a relatively short period of time, and that can pay the bills.