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Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.

Not to say there's not good TV out there, but I think TV is better when it accurately reflects the world as it is.

I think that televisions are unnecessarily complex. The irony is that as the pictures get better and the choice of content gets broader, that the complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated.

With the advent of cable and such, you guys are calling it the golden age of TV in terms of the writing and stuff. But it's like different branches of a big tree that TV has become.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.

The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.