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Douglas S. Cramer

"I loved what television was - the cat fights on 'Dynasty,' Archie Bunker yelling at his wife, Noel Coward and Mary Martin singing, and Dinah Shore or some of those great 'Carol Burnett Shows.' We don't have that anymore. On the good nights, we'd have 30 to 40 million people. There'd be disaster at the network if we had 20 million. You look at shows now, they get a million viewers and they think they're a hit. Something went wrong along the way."

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Brandon Stoddard
"It's important to the audience that shows be about something. Unless you know what it's truly about, you will never understand your show and it'll never be a good show. Never."
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James L. Brooks
"One of the amazing things about writing, is that you know in comedy that it works if they laugh. It keeps everybody honest in comedy and it's why people develop strange personalities. It's just a brutal fact that if they don't laugh, you die; if they laugh, you live." 
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Fred Silverman

"There are a lot of things that I can point to that I think are proud achievements… Most importantly, I had the opportunity to kind of stretch the medium a little bit. To do some things that had never been done before."

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Glen A. Larson
"I'm proudest of the fact that I fell in step with an audience taste-level that I knew how to judge and deliver for consistently. It  wasn't a one-shot, it wasn't a lucky this or a that. It's a consistent body of work that has some symmetry to it in terms of why it worked and how it worked."
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Ossie Davis
"Art has a deep responsibility, social, cultural, and otherwise. And that the basic motivation for the creation of art is, in a sense, to meet those responsibilities. Now, it doesn't mean that you cannot express yourself in any way you want to, but it takes place in a social context, whether you mean it to do so or not."
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Geraldo Rivera
"It still happens often, someone tells me, 'I'm a social worker because of your Willowbrook State School expose.' It's one of the most gratifying aspects of my life. Clearly, institutionalizing people with disabilities only enhanced their disabilities, it didn't alleviate them. It destroyed lives and wasted capital. That's my proudest achievement."