I started working in the mid-to-late Seventies, when television was not what it is now.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.
I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
I started making movies in 1977, and I didn't even think about the idea that I would ever be on a television show. Once I finished the 'Guiding Light,' I was like, 'I'm done with television!'
I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.
I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.
I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.
TV was my life, growing up. I ran home from school to watch television, and even did my homework with the TV on - my mom had a rule that as long as my grades didn't fall, I was allowed to. So it was my dream to work in television.
I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case.
I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.