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Quotes by Producer
"I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show."
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"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."
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"You have to act like a responsible professional in the industry regardless of your age."
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"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."
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"All houses are haunted. All persons are haunted. Throngs of spirits follow us everywhere. We are never alone."
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"I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years."
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"Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries."
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"What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it."
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"Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things."
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"The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do."
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"Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves."
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"It seems like there's a lot of people who just do not understand satire. They think it's weird. There's people who just don't understand you portray something or just explore a character, it means you're condoning it, saying this is the way to live."
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"What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better."
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"If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble."
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"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."
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"That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people."
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"It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted."
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"I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before."
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"It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge."
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"Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues."
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"There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited."
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"But, I think that the reason I responded to this book, sort of paradoxically, is that it starts out like The Big Chill, sort of. Four friends, who are not quite happy with their life, and every year they get together for a week and look for some comfort from each other."
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"We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hypertension in black males being higher than whites, and increasing. So we did a show in which James, the father on Good Times, had hypertension."
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"The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it."
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"I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important."
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"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."
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"It's a prizefight. Get off the stool, take your beating, go back to your corner, rest, and take a beating again. Believe in your own talent. Marry well."
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"Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes."
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"There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end."
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"Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and orange and yellow, like Burger King or something. I don't think I would have liked Beauty and the Beast at any age."
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"That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg."
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"He was definitely a father figure for all of us. Once you were a Giant, you were always a Giant."
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"We're lucky, real lucky. Our friends lost their house. We just had some burning embers put holes in the screens."
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