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Quotes by Producer
"You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings."
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"And the young people in the 1960's identified with it immediately, because, I guess the young people had been having years of repression really. They felt that the, you know, after the war everything was very austere, particularly in Europe."
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"Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant."
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"At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings."
News,
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"It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed."
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"When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile."
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"It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time."
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"My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker."
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"Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience."
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"You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to."
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"Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so."
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"Even this vein of writing is so foreign to me that I am amazed."
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"I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on."
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"In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm."
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"You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe."
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"I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film."
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"The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another."
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"Inspiration comes from all different places."
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"To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently."
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"I loved Alien, and I loved Carrie, and I loved The Exorcist - those were big movies for me. They were just brilliantly done, and unusual, and they all took horror to some new place."
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"In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you."
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"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,
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"We don't hold anything back. We go for broke, and if we have a good idea for a story line, we just use it because you never know and because the dynamics of the show are going to change."
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"Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of course economically it was cheaper to make films in India."
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"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."
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"Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!"
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"Year Two is a critical year for any television show."
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