You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes business director producer
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. Norman Lear audienceaveragecare Change image and share on social
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. Norman Lear actbegincommercial Change image and share on social
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. Norman Lear americancontroversialheart Change image and share on social
If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director. Timothy Simons archetypeauditioncast Change image and share on social
With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal. Robert Gottlieb appealbookcommercial Change image and share on social
The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it. Pamela Sargent businessconnectdeal share on social
