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I ended up with my life slanted toward television, and I just accept that. I think you play the hand the way it's dealt, that's all.

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

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 have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I had a father who said, 'I hate television;' it came into being when he was a kid, and he didn't have it, so he didn't think I needed it.

Television is a very highly constructed, and edited, and censored, and tailored, and marketed reality. But I'm not judgemental about it. I don't have anything against television. I just personally don't feel curious.

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

I'm not one of those who thinks there is something inherently bad or inferior about watching television.

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.

I respect the rules of TV, the rules of keeping things commercial and interesting and pop-y and fun.