It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
Some people have made a fortune by being employed. Jerry Bruckheimer does not own his content. Warner Bros. owns his shows. They are on CBS, and he makes a fortune.
This sounds crazy, I know, but you can make a billion dollars - very few people do - but you can make a billion dollars on a product. It can be "Lion King," it can be "Simpsons," it can be "Family Guy," who knows what it is. Or you can make zero. But you can't make a billion dollars if you don't own it.
Television is like the movie business. It's not the least-objectionable program - it's the best program that gets positioned. Same in the movie business. It's not just everything automatically gets done by the "in" crowd.
The content defines the platform, so whereas when I was working at ABC from '66 to '76, people said it was the "great wasteland. " It was the least-objectionable program that succeeded. It was, if you could get behind "All in the Family," you were successful.
Almost any show that has reviewers behind it, Rotten Tomatoes behind it, will find a way to survive.
Television is not hurting. Television is in fantastic shape. It's just a golden age for other people.
There is nothing more productive of problems than a really good solution.
If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.
There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.
The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.