American - Producer | March 23, 1945 -
Commercials were once TV's version of the church. Which is to say, you couldn't offend the sponsor; therefore, certain values had to be underscored in the subject matter.
David Milch
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The kind of flinching from any form of art or experience that PETA seems to advocate is ultimately life-hating.
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With 'Nostromo', Joseph Conrad said that he had wanted to write a novel about the degradation of an idea. That's what we wanted to show in the case of Dustin Hoffman's character, Bernstein.
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Apes beat their chests so they don't have to fight 24 hours a day.
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The predicate of modern medicine is, 'We invalidate your humanity, but we give you immortality, so you have to shut up and listen to us.'
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For a long time, I felt that was actually the best I could ever hope for - to pretend to be a good person - because I was quite the opposite.
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A person could look at me through ninety-five per cent of my experience and know that I had no shot. Because I was so unreliable. The only thing you could rely on me for was to betray you.
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I had proposed to HBO a series about the city cops in Rome at the time of Nero. What had interested me was the idea of order without law. The Praetorian Guard, who were the emperor's guards, understood how they were to proceed. But for the city cops, who were called the Urban Cohorts, there was no law at all.
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When I was growing up, it was not the heyday of the western.
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What cops are hired to do is to control people who will not abide by the social contract.
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I'm no rose. I have been around a while, and you never know when something is going to be the last thing you do.
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You want to harbor your resources and try not to make a mistake.
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