“Everybody loves ‘The Wire’ and I think it’s okay, but in the end it’s just a police series. I love ‘The Sopranos.’ ‘Deadwood,’ which didn’t last long, was a series I liked a lot; it had more filthy language than I’ve ever heard on television anywhere in my life, but it was brilliantly written. I like some of what is on now, like ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Dexter.’
“I mean, there is always a lot of junk; most novels published are bad novels, most plays put on are bad plays, most movies that come out are bad movies and that is also true of TV. Nineteen times out of 20 you fall asleep. There was a series called ‘Game of Thrones’ which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there’s lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it’s kind of fun. In the end, it’s well-produced trash, but there’s room for that, too.