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.

The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.

The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.

Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.

Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience.

Technology is that which separates us from our environment.