Although my dad's a writer, we grew up in a telly-watching household. I never found him disparaging about television.
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My son has been known to throw a book at the television set when he called for me to come play and I was obviously busy in the box. But I'm told that children of television performers grow up thinking that all mommies or daddies work on TV and that it's no big deal.
I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.
TV is a writer's medium.
I ended up with my life slanted toward television, and I just accept that. I think you play the hand the way it's dealt, that's all.
I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.
Television is a very writer-driven business, and it's one of the few parts of entertainment where writers are treated with respect, only because they need you. If they didn't have to treat you with respect, they would be happy to dismiss you.
I was a little bit ashamed of American TV because I thought, 'None of the shows my father works on are as funny as my father.'
I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.
I have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I had a father who said, 'I hate television;' it came into being when he was a kid, and he didn't have it, so he didn't think I needed it.