We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.
For a long time, censors have been cutting my works. This makes me so sad, because many times they will tell me, 'Television won't like, so we have to cut, cut, cut!'
I think all regions have had their peculiarities of speech rounded off by television, radio, and people travel so much more now.
As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to th...
When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won't tell you the evidence, and whe...
Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.
Television is not the truth. Television is a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus a carnival a travelling troupe of acrobats storytellers dancers singers jugglers sideshow freaks l...
Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's why I do it so often: It feels wonderful. The book is mind and I insert...
In the middle of it all is Hitler, of course.He was on again last night.He's always on. We couldn't have television without him.
I fell in love with stories watching a British television puppet show called 'Thunderbirds' when it first came out on TV, about 1965, so I would have been 4 or 5 years old. I went out into the garden...
It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?
Not a lot of people get a second chance. And I think for a while there, my name kind of got in my way a bit, based on all of the television I was fortunate enough to do. But after a while, you sort of...
The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's T...
Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.
On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.
I'm under the impression that this notion of decency is disappearing from our society where conflicts are made worse on cinema and on television, where people are nasty and cruel on the Internet and w...
When television captured the popular imagination of the 1950s, a rash of movies satirized Hollywood while also mythologizing it.
Television has its own award. It's called the Emmy. It's a good award. I like it. I have one. But you don't see movies like 'The King's Speech' win Oscars and then go to TV and qualify for Emmys. In d...
I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television.
In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.