television

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!'

The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was vivid, and I used to write a lot of stories. I wrote a novel, which I still have, which is so awful.

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

When television captured the popular imagination of the 1950s, a rash of movies satirized Hollywood while also mythologizing it.

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.

When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest Angley, the faith healer, who's very popular in the Midwest. He had a television show, and he was sort of like Liberace mixed with Jerry Falwell - very glitzy, very high-tech.

While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?

If you're sixty-something, pushing 70, the chances of you getting a tremendously fascinating part in the movies are very low, as to be almost negligible, or even in television. But in the theatre, there are still things to do, very interesting, very profound things.

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?