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In the late 1940s, there weren't any pop stars, and TV didn't exist.

I started working in the mid-to-late Seventies, when television was not what it is now.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows every week, and they used a lot of kids. There were schools just for these kids. There was a whole world that doesn't exist anymore.

I didn't watch a lot of American television growing up. I just liked to read a lot and watch movies - movies, movies, and more movies. My family used to make fun of me because I'd like every movie I saw.

We didn't have a TV because we didn't have a whole lot of money. My parents would have their friends over - their friends who thought, 'How can you live without a TV?'

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

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.