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Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite.

Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails.

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

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.

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

Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.

Television is such a mediocre medium.

Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of your own decency and your own limitations.