When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.
I know there have been some catastrophically unpopular programmes on television over the years. Has it ever got to the point where the only person still interested in what's happening is the person who's on the telly?
I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.
There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.
'Greg the Bunny,' the comedy television show that I co-created, happened almost by accident. Dan Milano, Spencer Chinoy and myself made a public access show that caught the eye of IFC, and it has had three incarnations since then with a season on Fox.
'Meet the Press' is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.
I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.
I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.
Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite.
Realistically, guys who are into gaming are not necessarily watching television.
I enjoy reality television.
But reality television is here to stay.
I'm probably the biggest reality television star living.
Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that's about it.
I really don't like reality television and the nonsense that comes with it.
Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape. There is this breed of gimmicky documentary that is basically a reality show.
Television is dead. And television will not be reborn. It will not come back.
I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.
