For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.
Domald Trump has whatever it is that works on television.
George W. Bush did not go on television to trash [Donald] Trump.
To show you, just to illustrate the inroads the homosexual marriage crowd has made, it is now common to hear on television and in the midst of debate the concept of "opposite-sex marriage."
There are establishment Republicans who think Ted Cruz is not a likable guy. I don't understand that. I've had occasion to meet him twice, but just watching him on television, he's not unlikable, he's an dislikable.
Donald Trump is great television, just has it. Trump looks good on TV.
If it's done right, radio can just be far more important than television.
To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick.
I hope there's a window that opens in American television where the rest of the world is viewed in a less censored light. There is something about the world outside the United States that is not understood here - that seems threatening to Americans.
I'm not fussy about the medium I work in. I'll do television radio, you know. I have to, because that's the only way I can do continually good roles.
I would never be a television presenter. It's not something I could ever do.
I'm an old git now, so I would say this, but television was better when there were less channels. There was more concentration and selection in terms of the output.
The hope for me going back into television - after doing what will have been two years of radio - is to bring that authenticity with me. And, to not have the visual be overpowering the content.
A lot of people in television who've had successful shows claim the 'Roseanne' show as their starting place, and I'm really proud of that.
I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny.
I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.
The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and 80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.
Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.
I miss the comraderie of live television - the fact that you were on the set, you worked closely with the director and the cast, that I miss. But, no, I'm happy, I'm happy doing film.
Infinitely more taboos, on television.
I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television.
I just don't see the social good in using taxpayer money to fund a network that provides more television and bandwidth for illegally downloading files.
The notion of making the television - the very thing that we allow into our living room and our kid's bedroom - something that's potentially dangerous, to me, is just so incredibly delicious that I can't tell you.
Everything in television is dumbing down even further and it won't stop until somebody dies.
I'm disappointed in television. I'm disappointed first of all in the audience that will not let stories be told in longer form.
