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When your culture comes from watching TV every day, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. None of that happened where I was. You're almost taught to realize it's not for you.

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.

I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.

The TV world is not what it used to be. I mean, the quality has become something quite exceptional.

I have a deep respect for the fundamentals of television, the traditions of it, even, but I don't have any reverence for it.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with.

We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.