- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.
- Disciplines
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- Nov 07, 2020
Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.
- Establishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.' I mean, please.
- Consumer
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- Nov 07, 2020
And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hardly see myself as a futurist.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's show business. No show, no business.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.
- Eyeballs
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020