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Television is a different challenge; it is not a stage. But each opportunity that I have to learn I learn, and I take the opportunity to work.

The real challenge in doing a TV show is in what I would call the maintenance energy. You take that creative energy and you use it every week, of course. But you then need to maintain the quality of the stories, and it's harder to do.

The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.

It just seems there's better things to do in your life than be on television if it's not interesting, if it's not challenging, if it's not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I'll stop making television.

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.

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.

Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

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

The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.