top of page
.png){kind=small}
"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."
Standard
Customized
More
"Public opinion is to an unconventional idea - what abortion is to sperm."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right."
Author Name
Personal Development
"He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style."
Author Name
Personal Development
"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions. (1953)"
Author Name
Personal Development
"We never waste space saying, "On the one hand." We just state an opinion in a Godlike voice."
Author Name
Personal Development
"However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage."
Author Name
Personal Development
"They can say I have an opinion about something."
Author Name
Personal Development
"For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion."
Author Name
Personal Development
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"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
"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."
Trust
"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."
Opera
"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."
Business
"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."
Architecture
"Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest."
Popularity
"There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes."
Writer
"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
"Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential."
Potential
"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."
Time
bottom of page