"I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television"

"Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols"

"Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business"

"He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos"

"I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience"

"While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility"

"And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality"

"You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them"

"Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye"

"Television is chewing gum for the eyes"

"The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone"