People Quotes by Norman Lear

Norman Lear

As a matter of fact, when people ask where my ‘point of view’ comes from, it was there in one of the first sketches we wrote for [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis.

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Norman Lear

As H.L. Mencken once said, ‘nobody ever when broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.’ Our show [All in the Family] countered that witticism. I think he was wrong.

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Norman Lear

I get a kick out of the fact that people will pick on the writers in California for being responsible for the content. The people seriously responsible for the content are the people who buy it.

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Norman Lear

It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared – we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring – the more they cared, the harder they laughed.

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Norman Lear

Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker – as I said earlier, you can’t change people’s minds, but you can get them to think.

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Norman Lear

So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.

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Norman Lear

That’s the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.

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Norman Lear

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they’re very wise at heart.

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Norman Lear

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

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People Quotes by Norman Lear

As a matter of fact, when people ask where my ‘point of view’ comes from, it was there in one of the first sketches we wrote for [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis.

As H.L. Mencken once said, ‘nobody ever when broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.’ Our show [All in the Family] countered that witticism. I think he was wrong.

I get a kick out of the fact that people will pick on the writers in California for being responsible for the content. The people seriously responsible for the content are the people who buy it.

It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared – we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring – the more they cared, the harder they laughed.

Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker – as I said earlier, you can’t change people’s minds, but you can get them to think.

So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.

That’s the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they’re very wise at heart.

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

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