Norman Lear Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.”

“In this nation, leadership is dollars.”

“Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.”

“Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs.”

“I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.”

“Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make.”

“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.”

“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.”

“We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.”

“Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play.”