If you're going to take care of your kids and pay for your house and do something good for adults, you have to do something on television now..

Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things..

You can get an awful lot of effects into the customer's mind for a great deal less time and money in radio than you can in television..

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television s….

What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary..

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity..

Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way..

American television is very much created by the writers, just the volume of it. The writers are so key. You're just trying to do something that serve….

For perhaps most Americans, TV is an apppliance, not to be used selectively but to be turned on - there's always something to watch..

The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it..

I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect..

There was a time when I said, "I'm going to go do a television thing," after doing all these theatrical films, and heard, "Television? Why are you go….

And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television..

My dignity and good television - they'll never meet..

No one looks at a television, and no one hears it. It's a poison..

Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming..

Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing..

I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television a….

I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated. I was up early watching television and watched the announcement. I didn't understand what the wo….

I freely admit I know nothing about television or writing for the screen..

Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike into….