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"I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times."
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"I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work."
Work
"The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits."
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"It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim."
Movies
"The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in."
People
"Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off."
Comedy
"There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie."
Internet
"It's show business. No show, no business."
Business
"If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike."
Health
"And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows."
Care
"The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house."
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"I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive."
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"For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds."
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"We have had to play some mighty tough audiences."
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"Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright."
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"With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle."
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"There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop."
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"Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think."
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"So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences."
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"But you can't really know your audiences so well."
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"I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent."
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