The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You have to relish the challenge of television.
Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.
TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.
Sometimes television can just jump from one bit of plot to the next, and the words fill in the in-between.
Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.
TV is the place that writers want to be.
I have a deep respect for the fundamentals of television, the traditions of it, even, but I don't have any reverence for it.
In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.
I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.