20 Quotes by Sherwood Schwartz

When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it's written well, you should be able to erase the names of the characters saying the lines and still be able to know who said it. If you can't do that, the show will fail.

She looks terrific. She takes advantage of her celebrity to ask for things a normal girl wouldn't ask for. She's playing to win.

Gilligan's Island ... I knew that by assembling seven different people and forcing them to live together, the show would have great philosophical implications.

He was, first of all, a good friend of mine; he wasn't just an actor who worked on my show,

He was a great actor, ... People think it's easy to fall down and get hit in the head with a coconut. And, every time, he'd find a different way to do that.

He was a complex man. He was not a guy who just slipped on banana peels. He knew most people thought of him as a funny guy who could do funny things. But he was really an intellectual at heart.

I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character.

I was creator and executive producer of 'The Brady Bunch' on TV. The stage version was done by others, but it was a repeat of the old scripts. The 'Gilligan' musical is a completely original work with all seven characters and 18 original songs.

'Rescue From Gilligan's Island' was the first of the so-called reunion shows on the networks, getting a 54 share. With numbers like that, everybody else started to have reunion shows.