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The one thing that TV is bad at doing is preaching. There are two extremes, you either turn the people into a punchline or turn them into hero, and both of those things suck, because most people are neither in real life.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.

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

It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with.

I think the audience is pretty intelligent.

A lot of television stuff is mean-spirited, and I think that's how political advertising got so mean-spirited, to where people are throwing things at the television set every time we have an election.

Some people will humiliate themselves or their families just to be on television.

As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.

You're very aware in the theater by the response you get, but not so much on television, obviously.