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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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"If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role."
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"If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it."
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"I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera."
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"Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama."
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"I really wanted to be an opera soprano."
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"In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play."
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"I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy."
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"Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me."
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"A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator."
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"Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers."
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"There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes."
Writer
"At one time, whenever the hell it was, they wanted a character to come in and stir up the pot. They brought me in for 8-10 episodes and said we'll try it for that."
Time
"I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that."
People
"Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible."
Change
"The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are."
Politics
"Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have."
Work
"Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week."
Opinion
"The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process."
Business
"I didn't care about that because I'm not a diplomatic person to begin with. I just went along with things and did what I wanted to do because I knew they had to shoot their 12 pages a day. And when they realized that I didn't alter the text they really didn't mind what I did."
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"It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore."
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