So We Gravitated To Shows And Issues

I Get A Kick Out Of The Fact That People Will Pick On The Writers In California For Being Responsible For The Content. The People Seriously Responsible For The Content Are The People Who Buy It.

The American People May Not Be The Best-educated, But They're Very Wise At Heart.

Bud [yorkin] Broke Out Big When He Did 'the Fred Astaire Show' And Won Four Emmys. His Wife At The Time Suggested That We Team Up. We Got A Lot Of Press In Show Business Papers, And A Number Of Offers...we Eventually Signed With Paramount Pictures. But I Always Like To Say, His Was The Horse That We Rode In On. That Is My Favorite Recollection.

Ratings Translate Into Corporations, Corporations That Need A Profit Statement This Quarter That's Larger Than The Last.

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