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There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone.

I think a lot of TV insults the audience.

TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not. People think they have to have an answer for everything because the guys on TV have an answer for everything.

Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.

Not to say there's not good TV out there, but I think TV is better when it accurately reflects the world as it is.

Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.

I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.

In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.