As television is learning some of the movies' great tricks, movies are taking what's good from TV. Maybe it will all become one big thing, with smart, talented people who love a thing, helping each other be better.

I have now become so infatuated with television. I think television has become elegant.

I felt validated and valued , and here was this woman [Whoopi Goldberg ] inside my television screen who gave me a voice.

If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery artworks.

It feels good to turn on the TV and have options, a variety. That's why television is so good.

I don't want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won't deal with it. If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.

I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.

Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn your passport and beg the Luftwaffe to have another go.

Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.