Norman Lear Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.”

“There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.”

“TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.”

“When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain.”

“You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.”

“But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.”

“I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times.”

“In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.”