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“People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.”
“The television image sanctified, conferred identity. The more familiar the face, the more to be trusted. ”
“I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don't think if, by playing safe he means we are not going to delve into controversy, then if that's what he means...”
“So technologies, whether it is a telephone or an iPhone, computers in general or automobiles, television even, all individualize us. We all sit in front of our iPhones and communicating but are we ...”
“Back in the 1950s and '60s, J. M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan' - starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard - was regularly aired on network television during the Christmas season. I must have seen it four or...”
“My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.”
“When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won't tell you the evidence, and ...”
“In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.”
“I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.”
“You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothing's going to get fixed until the President...”
“With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more at...”
“On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.”
“We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.”
“If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.”
“Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.”
“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...”
“Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.”
“I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television.”
“We need to bring Android and Chrome to every screen that matters for users, which is why we focused on phone, wearables, car, television, laptops, and even your workplace.”
“I wanted to send a message to the television industry that excitement is not made of car chases.”
