- Big Ones
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Curtain
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hypertension in black males being higher than whites, and increasing. So we did a show in which James, the father on Good Times, had hypertension.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed.
- Excess
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.
- Director
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this nation, leadership is dollars.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020