I'm trying to get more into television and film. I know, like, a million models and rappers have said that, but I actually enjoy voiceover and acting in particular.

When I do an interview, when I appear on camera, I want to be the same person as the one you meet personally and say, 'He is really the same person I saw on television.'

There's nothing that sells stuff like television. Nothing.

I think that television and the web are fusing anyway, so I think that ultimately whatever I do, I'm going to blend the two forms.

Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.

'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' occurred in real time and was a benign and bewitching example of pure television.

I would like to think that television would be representative of the world we live in.

I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old. I would come home from friends's houses with a list of demands. 'OK, We have all the wrong cereals. You guys are asleep on the job.'

When I was in the sixth form I presented a cable and satellite programme about music, television and video. I used to do public speaking competitions.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

I first met the 'Trailer Park Boys' when they did my web television show, and since then, I've hung out with them a few times.

For my generation of actors, it was about the theatre. Television didn't exist. Coaxial cable didn't exist.

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

I want to do more television and I want to do more radio.

I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years.

Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me.

If you take the '70s with Blaxploitation pictures, there was a proliferation of black-content films and motion pictures, television, stage plays and so forth at a time when Hollywood was in trouble financially, and it was cheaper to do black films to keep the lights on until they could reestablish themselves.

You never know what's going to happen with television these days.

If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.

When I was a kid, I would turn on the television as soon as I got home from school.