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American television really is pathetic.

The days of television as we knew it growing up are over. You have a bigger, wider world audience on the Internet, larger than any American television series. People don’t watch television in the same context as before. Nowadays they watch their television on the Internet at their convenience. That’s the whole wave, and it’s now – not the future.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

Even though I’m English, I’ve all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general.

I think I’ve actually benefited from Australia being a kind of combination of both British and American culture. We kind of got the best of both British and American television and books, science fiction and fantasy, and so on. So I’m familiar with a lot of, for example, American books and television that a British author of my generation might not be.

The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.

Well, certainly I think American television is – that’s proper TV.

The only time I was really surprised was the reaction to the [shoot dedicated to the] BP oil [spill in 2010]. I didn’t expect it at all. It was for the August issue, perhaps one of the less relevant months, but there was so much buzz. It was picked up all over the American television, but I defended my position. I don’t understand those that say that a magazine such as Vogue should not talk about these things.

I wanted to branch out into American television, specifically because you get to develop a character for a longer period of time and you get to develop a relationship with the audience.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is

I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost concede before they start: ‘Well, it won’t be good, but at least it’ll be good-looking. We’ll have nice-looking girls in tight shirts with F.B.I. badges and fit-looking guys with lots of hair gel vaulting over things.’

I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.

American television is very much created by the writers, just the volume of it. The writers are so key. You’re just trying to do something that serves that script. And in general, film isn’t all about the script, really.

There’s definitely a wave of Brits doing great work on American television, and I wouldn’t mind being one of them!

The Simpsons is the best thing on American television.

I make my living doing freelance directing for North American television shot in Toronto, series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Twilight Zone, and so forth.