"There may not be something wrong with 6-8 hours of television a day, but it would be very nice for you to remember that you’re essentially being offered a sales pitch and a seduction 6-8 hours a day. If we forget that, then for some reason, just intuitively, I think we’re in huge trouble. At a time in the US, I think, when it’s very hard to find and commit to things that you think are important or good, at least for me, in some elements of fiction it seems to me…it’s a rather high-minded agenda: to try to wake people up to the fact that our experience is weird now. There’s something weird and thrice-removed from the real world about it. And a lot of us don’t realize it. What’s at stake is, in many ways, human agency about how we experience the world. Would I rather go muck around in the hot sun by the seashore or watch a marvelously put together documentary about the death of egrets? But by the time I go to the god damned seashore and have seen the egrets, I have already experienced the smooth documentary so many times that it becomes, quickly, incoherent to talk about an extra-mediated, or an extra-televisual reality. Now that fact in and of itself is frightening. And it’s that kind of almost just sort of shooting a flare into the sky and inviting people to say how weird that is. I can go to the ocean that I’ve never seen before, but I’ve spent a thousand hours {there}. I mean it’s…who would wanna live when you can…watch?"