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Quotes by Producer
"It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a couple times - it just makes the whole struggle more."
7
"There are a couple of things that I'm sure people don't think are important, but I do. I don't like hair changes unless there's a reason for it. Clothing - I don't like to see an outfit worn more than one time in an hour - you can wear it again a few weeks later."
7
"A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated."
7
"I think that one of the nice things about the Yellow Submarine movie is that it seems to be perennial. People enjoy watching from each generation. And it was like the Beatles themselves. You know the Beatles seem to find new audience each time another generation comes along."
7
"I almost didn't name Butt-Head 'Butt-Head.' I came real close to calling him something else."
Name,
7
"You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time."
7
"He was definitely a father figure for all of us. Once you were a Giant, you were always a Giant."
6
"We're lucky, real lucky. Our friends lost their house. We just had some burning embers put holes in the screens."
6
"I've seen a lot of pairs of guys that have been hanging out together way too long-until they're laughing all the time."
Time,
6
"I put the storyboard down and came back to it like two weeks later and saw that I had written 'Butt-Head' next to the picture, and it kind of made me laugh and I thought, Well, might as well go for every laugh you can get."
6
"We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie."
6
"Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many."
6
"Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad."
6
"Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different."
6
"Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting."
6
"Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it."
6
"President Johnson offered the middle of the road."
6
"But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world."
6
"I was through as a manager. I did become involved late in the 1968 campaign at the national scene at the last minute. But I was through as a manager, and I've stayed through, incidentally."
6
"Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed."
6
"She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day."
6
"What you hope for, like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime."
6
"Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really."
6
"I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me."
6
"There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it."
6
"Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis."
Name,
6
"With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western."
6
"What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination."
6
"It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. "The West Wing" isn't meant to be good for you."
6
"The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering."
6
"Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired."
6
"Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images."
6
"We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market."
6
"In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen."
6
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