Top 28 Quotes by Norman Lear

Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play.

There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.

I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it.

When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain.

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

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.

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.

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.

Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.

So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.