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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.

I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are.

Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.

Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of your own decency and your own limitations.

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.

Nothing real or truthful makes its way to TV unless you are smart and know how to sneak it in, and I would tell you how I did it, but then I would have to kill you.

The weird thing about working in television is that you only see the people that you're in scenes with.

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.

I'm not one of those who thinks there is something inherently bad or inferior about watching television.