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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."
"Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out."
"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."
"This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it."
"Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers."
"I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them."
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"When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said."
"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."
"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."
"And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the creation of characters. David put together a show that told the story of people over many years' time and that was greatly enjoyable. Though nowadays that is frowned upon."
"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."
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