Network television is all talk
Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don’t add up.
– David Chase
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- People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a lot of stuff that was on television. It’s nothing about the medium itself. – David Chase
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