List of Norman Lear Quotes

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.

Tv That People Will Never See, That Giant International Corporations Will Never Touch, Will Never Pay Your Salary.

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.

Life Goes On Pretty Much The Same Way. I've Been Working On A Couple Of Films On The Side. You May See Some More. You May Even See Another Television Show.

You're In The Business - When You're A Writer, Producer, Director - To Get Ratings.

Life Is About Having A Good Time, And It Was A Good Time. We Did Some Things Well And Some Things Poorly, But That Was Always The Case.

Nobody Doubts My Partisanship, But A Lot Of The Activity Is Nonpartisan.

Originally, With All The Shows, We Went Looking For Belly Laughs.

... For All Our Alarm, It Is Clear That The Religious Right Is Responding To A Real Hunger In Our Society... A Deep-seated Yearning For Stable Values... When Conservative Christian Groups Talk Of Failures In Our Educational System, The Erosion Of Our Moral Standards, And The Waste Of Young Lives, They Are Addressing Real And Legitimate Concerns... Among Secularists, The Aversion Toward Discussion Of Moral Values, Let Alone Religion, Can Reach Absurd Extremes.

We Got Ratings. It Isn't That They Won't Quarrel With You, Or Say You're Always Right. But As Long As You Stay Strong And The Ratings Are Good And You're Reasonable - I Don't Think We Fought Unreasonably. We Basically Won That Right.

The Trafficking Of Sex And Violence Is Comes After The Demand For Ratings.

We Mocked That Concept ['movies Are Better Than Ever'] By Doing A Sketch That Was About A Theater Trying To Get One Customer To Come In...and That Customer Was Jerry Lewis. It Generated So Much Controversy That Dean [martin] And Jerry [lewis] Had To Apologize In A Full Page Ad In Variety.