Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. – Ernest Hemingway
In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait. – Les Brown
De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But Ive realized I cant operate at that level of intensity. Thats okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself. – Christopher Meloni