It’s not like I’m nervous of people seeing what I can or can’t do on camera or on TV or anything, or what my engineers think.

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don’t think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

I saw MotoGP on TV first, before I saw F1 and other types of car racing. It’s what I got more into. It was cool, there was good, exciting racing.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

Football games are on TV, and it doesn’t affect stadium attendance at all. It’s the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

I’ve always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he’s been in front of the camera. He doesn’t have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.

According to Lifetime, I don’t know anything about TV.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

I’m always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

I’m not a photographer, so I didn’t get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That’s the world that I’m moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president’s birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing ‚Happy Birthday,‘ like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, ‚Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!‘

100 percent a huge fan of Beyonce. If I see her, I will faint. I’ve met her before. I just get really nervous and quiet – I just shut up and bow down.

I don’t have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I’ve been too lucky and that I’m over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.

I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started directing, I said, ‚If I could pull this off, I can some day move to the back of the camera and stay there.‘

There’s this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn’t do TV.

Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure – the law firms, the real estate, all that – that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

I really wanted to be a model when I was little. I loved photography, and I loved being on camera. But I was short and chubby, so I couldn’t. Anyway, being an artist is way more interesting than just being a model because it’s about you and what you want to be. You’re not being treated like a clothes hanger.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

Too much TV hurts movies.

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice.

TV’s a big deal in prison. A big deal. People watch it nonstop.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I’m making 22 minutes; I know there’s a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.

Seeing Pax get extra-nervous about which shirt he is going to wear when he meets Aung San Suu Kyi, I get very moved. He rightfully doesn’t get nervous going to a movie premiere; he gets nervous going to meet her.

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.