Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

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

If I were beginning my career today I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television and I think if I were beginning today I'd be there.

Thanks to television for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it whether it's on film or television or waiting tables you know?

If you're going to vote on a television contract there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.

With any child entering adolescence one hunts for signs of health is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness I guess comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.

When I was a little kid all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936 and it was a monopoly and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on I go to the library and read a good book.

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.

The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'

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

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

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

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television I always did what I wanted to do and if I couldn't I didn't do it. It was a freedom that these days young directors starting out don't have.