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She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set.

Shooting a television show is hard enough, and it takes a lot of time away from your personal life and your family life.

Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.

Sign language is my first language. English and Spanish are my second languages. I learned Spanish from my grandparents, sign language from my parents, and English from television.

So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.

Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.

Some of the greatest films and television have only been seen by the people that make them. And some of the greatest music is only heard by the people who make it.

Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You never get me. That's the whole point.

Sometimes I'll watch an old movie on television and, once in a while, one of mine, such as April Showers, will come on and I'll watch it. And you know something? I'm always amazed at what a lousy actress I was. I guess in the old days we just got by on glamour.

Sometimes doing a movie for a short period of time is better than committing eight months to a television show.

Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.

Sometimes you have a noisy neighbour. You cannot do anything about that. They will always be noisy. You just have to get on with your life, put your television on and turn it up a bit louder.

Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.

So technologies, whether it is a telephone or an iPhone, computers in general or automobiles, television even, all individualize us. We all sit in front of our iPhones and communicating but are we really communicating?

So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers advice and from the counselors around.

Somewhere around the turn of the century, it stopped being hip to say you never watched TV. Adults are much more likely to find something to engage them on television than they are at the local multiplex. Edges are being cut on television all the time, but at the movies only now and then.

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.

Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.

Sunday night was such a big night for television when I was growing up - you know, The Wonderful World of Disney.

Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress.

Surrounded by noises from televisions, airplanes, subways and automobiles, most of us 'tune out' for self-protection.

television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing. ... there were always enough experts to assure the public that crime and violence had nothing to do with crime and violence.

Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

Television, cable, the Internet, that's knocked the boundaries down.

Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.

Television has a conscience. It is how we disseminate our value system.

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.

Television in the 1960s & 70s had just as much dross and the programmes were a lot more tediously patronising than they are now. Memory truncates occasional gems into a glittering skein of brilliance. More television, more channels means more good television and, of course, more bad. The same equation applies to publishing, film and, I expect, sumo wrestling.

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Television is kind of restrictive in its directing, but it would be nice to get some chops doing TV.

Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.

Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

Television is so much about continuing to work with people.

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

Television and the way we watch is going to change dramatically in the next year.

Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms.

Television happens very quickly. It was like a shot of adrenaline into me, as a filmmaker, and my career. You can hit town, do the show, and leave with this incredible energy behind you.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.

Television, I love it, everything that happened before television lumped together, never caused folks to turn on a street to stare at me, or waitresses to ask for autographs.