You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.

The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.

Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.

Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case.

The people responsible for the dollars that will buy the sex and violence so many deplore, don't even know what's going - well, of course they know. But they're comfortably ensconced in their country clubs and churches, and very far removed from the decisions that are made on their behalf.

I think that of most leaders in religion as power brokers. They give orders, in a sense, to an audience every week, and that's where the definition of God starts.

That's a very hard thing to help the establishment know. We're still an establishment that thinks the average mentality is something like 13 years of age, that never forgot H.L. Mencken's notion that nobody lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American people. That's the horseshit the establishment has always lived with.