It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.
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I think when you get out of the big cities people get really freaked out when they see someone who is on TV, because they're not used to that.
It's very difficult to get an audience to be terrified of what's going on. Think about it: You're in a room with so many other people, so for them to be terrified and to care about what's going on on-screen takes a lot of work.
The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you.
The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.
I think I scare people. I really have to watch myself.
When you're doing a network show in the States, you're just a slave to the ratings. There's so much money invested that there's this pervasive atmosphere of fear and anxiety. Every morning after an episode of your show airs, everyone is fixated on the numbers to try and determine how the show did.
There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.
Anthology shows as a whole scare people. The networks can't quite get their heads around it.
Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
Live TV would terrify anybody.
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