I don't know how you can look back with regret if you're at a moment when everything seems fine.

Next up [new TV stars] was [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis on 'The Colgate Comedy Hour.'

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

Ratings translate into corporations, corporations that need a profit statement this quarter that's larger than the last.

I wish I knew how we achieve the goal of world peace. My bumper sticker reads 'Just Another Version of You.' The sooner we agree that we're just other versions of each other - we human beings - the sooner we will find some sense of world peace.

I think Americans have become a - much more a nation of consumers than citizens.

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