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Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.

I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.

I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.

I do think that television, in its early years, played a significant role in that standard-setting, enforcing a certain decency among people. They took their role seriously, and the people behind the camera took their role seriously, too.

I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended.

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

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

The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still paramount.