112 Quotes by Norman Lear

Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make.

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

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.

TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.

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.

But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.

I think David E. Kelley, with his new deal, is vastly underpaid,

We intend to travel it across the country because it is the living document that set this nation up, ... And it lives today, and those words are for everybody. We want to remind everybody of them.