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.

I did skit comedy online for many years beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing which was the comedy.