"I think we made more happen on a Saturday morning than anybody else. Saturday morning was the drudges of television. You put your kids in front of the set and then it was goodbye. You didn't watch anything. We got the adults to watch."
"My taste has to be the taste of the script, whether it's a log cabin or whether it's an elegant townhouse."
"I was in charge of installing television transmitters on top of the Empire State Building, which is a fascinating place in which to work. My office was on the eighty-fifth floor - that's the highest office in the world, but it didn't affect my salary at all. I was putting the antennae on the very tip top, which was nothing but a flat sheet of stainless steel when we first went up there, which you entered by means of a trap door. The trick was not to get blown off."