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Television has its own award. It's called the Emmy. It's a good award. I like it. I have one. But you don't see movies like 'The King's Speech' win Oscars and then go to TV and qualify for Emmys. In documentaries, some networks have been able to game the system.

I mean, the competition is really created by the buzz around the Emmys. It's a totally subjective thing.

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

The Emmys is great, but the Golden Globes, you have the stars of television and the stars of movies in one place.

I think the Emmy obviously is very prestigious and is the gold standard obviously in terms of television. But the Oscars go beyond that. I believe children, when they're growing up, dream of holding that Oscar.

Truly what the Emmys are about are the machine behind them, and Oscars are the same way, where if you have a big enough machine behind you, you get nominated, because truly how many of the best performances actually win... not many.

So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.

Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry.

The Emmys are flat-out fun.

I have an Emmy, but it's no big deal: work in TV news long enough, you eventually get one.