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Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.
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.
Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.
Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs.
So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
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.
The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.
The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.
We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
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.
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.
When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain.
You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.
There are good characters and bad characters.
We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese.
You can make fun of everything.
And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.
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