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In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

I don't even own a television. I'm proud of that.

Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.

I like to have fun with them. I like to toy with them a little bit. we're making television, after all. Right?

Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional.

What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.

The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.

Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.

I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

I'm very wary of news on television.

Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

So it took me five years because in the interim I have been doing a lot of personal appearances and movies and some television series that went into the plumbing and I stopped writing for a while.

I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?

We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.