Guests on talk shows. Film, on the other hand, interrupts electric light 24 times a second. TV sound is about as pleasing as a neighbor's lawnmower. Film can modulate that lawnmower against the whispering of the wind through the trees, to a surging musical accompaniment, while we hear some lines of dialogue from inside the house. Film is photograph painted with light.
TV is a household appliance.
Whereas we treat TV as if it were a member of the household, film has a more privileged status. It not only takes us out of our domicile but shows things to us in a special way. Film is projected up, above us, from behind. We don't look back at the projection booth, because we know that all we see is the light beam, emanating from a bright window, up above. It would be a fruitless as trying to turn around and see that spot the size of a quarter at the back of our necks which we never see.