I ended up with my life slanted toward television, and I just accept that. I think you play the hand the way it's dealt, that's all.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.
TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.
I have a deep respect for the fundamentals of television, the traditions of it, even, but I don't have any reverence for it.
I actually think we should be trying to be rigorous in our thinking about television and the way it enters our lives and shapes the way so many people think.
People's attitude seems to be that if you don't have a television, you're not connected to reality - somehow you're not in reality. It's quite interesting, because I suspect that possibly it's the reverse.
The whole thing about doing TV is that you never know what's going to happen. You just have to go with it and go with the flow.
I have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I had a father who said, 'I hate television;' it came into being when he was a kid, and he didn't have it, so he didn't think I needed it.
I'm not one of those who thinks there is something inherently bad or inferior about watching television.
I think I really see myself doing TV more than ever.
I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.