I think what's dangerous is 24 hours a day, 335 channels, or whatever the hell there is. Too much is too much.

Archie Bunker used to call me 'the laziest white kid he'd ever met.'

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

We had two African American writers [Eric Monte and Michael Evans] on the show ['Good Times'] that knew Cabrini Green inside and out, and that's why we set it there.

The evidence seems clear that those business which actively serve their many constitutencies in creative, morally thoughtful ways also, over the long run, serve their shareholders best. Companies do, infact, do well by doing good.

My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.

Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make.