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I did a mini-series in Boston and Newport RI in the 80's called "The Fitzgerald's and the Kennedys" (aka "The Kenne
During the making of one of the legendary Katherine Hepburn's last pictures I had the priviledge of sharing a private moment 
that gave definition
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Do, or do not. - There is no 'try'..
I can't wait to one day shoot in Detroit and say 'Let's have this double for Toronto'.
Why should people go out and pay to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
When you're down and out, something always turns up -- and it's usually the noses of your friends.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
What's this business of being a writer?
It's just putting one word after another.
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
The problem with television is that the people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it. Therefore, the showmen are…
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter,
but, that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.…
I'll give you a definite maybe.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Seeing a murder on television, can help work off one's antagonisms.
And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some!
When asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
I'll moider da bum!
Life ain't no dress rehearsal.
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them!
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by favoring to attempt.
Kiss and make up...
but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
From: "Tuesday's with Morrie"
We must learn to love one another or die.... We must!
Advise to a young Richard Roundtree
Whatever you do in this business, It's much easier than lifting heavy things.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it.
I said, Thyroid problem?
While attending a Production Meeting
This is no place to ask questions!!
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Sage Advise to a Young Oregonian, Barbara Niven
If you want to make it in show business, get the hell out of Oregon!
To young actor. Eugene Roach on the subject of acting
Don't ever let 'em catch you at it.
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
