Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV image, that the actor must achieve a great degree of spontaneous casualness that would be irrelevant in movie and lost on the stage. For the audience participates in the inner life of the TV actor as fully as in the outer life of the movie star. Technically, TV tends to be a close-up medium. The close-up that in the movie is used for shock is, on TV, a quite casual thing.

Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.

Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village or tavern gossip session.

We impose the form of the old on the content of the new.

World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.