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"A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on."
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"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."
"Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I really don't think I could do another stint like that again."
"Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers."
"Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it."
"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."
"Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama."
"I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them."
"Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint."
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"I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines."
"I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series."
"Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have."
"David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor's instincts, since after all, it's the actors playing the character."
"What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality."
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