I have always advised people never to apply for a job you do not really want.

I am in the penitentiary. The only thing that I do is my time.

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.

In this nation, leadership is dollars.

If you always been my enemy, it’s still that way.

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.

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.

Well, television has become an unforgiving environment and you don’t get to make mistakes. That was the great thing about Universal in the old days.

We are a country of excess. So it’s not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money.

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.

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.

We took an approach, supported by the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary and the Mayor for London, that we had very real fears of violence and damage being caused across the streets of London.

Pac always praised Death Row. Nobody ever leaves here alive. I lost a lot of loved ones like him. If you around me, then I have your back.

The great strikes of the ’50s and ’60s were bloody and awful, but at that point there were only three networks. Everyone came back to work.

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...

If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don’t act like it wasn’t you.

Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.

And the consumer doesn’t care. They don’t watch networks, they watch TV shows.

When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, ‘Who are these people?...

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...

How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?

If the scripts are not good, I’ll tell somebody, ‘This isn’t good.’

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...

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

They been callin up here, asking when I am gonna get out. When I hit bricks, it all belongs to me.