Larry Gelbart
Larry Gelbart
Lawrence Simon "Larry" Gelbart was an American television writer, playwright, screenwriter and author, most famous as a creator and producer of the record-breaking hit TV show M*A*S*H...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth25 February 1928
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
writing california southern
I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level.
writing make-happy ridiculous
You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.
writing thinking numbers
I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I can find out some of what I think about any number of situations. I work it out in the writing.
writing play two
I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden meaning tucked away somewhere, or perhaps find that it's capable of an extra entendre or two. . . . Plotting is nothing I did, or do, naturally. It is the hardest part of the writing process. No matter how many times you plot a script successfully, the next one, representing new and uncharted territory, convinces you that you really don't know how to do it at all.
writing easy hopefully
I refuse to do anything easy. I'm writing for the smartest person out there. I'm not equating myself with the smartest person out there, but hopefully I'm writing to say you're not alone. I'm not alone. We're not alone.
campaign fulfilling talk
Talk about fulfilling a campaign promise, ... M*A*S*H.
credit people terribly
A lot of people credit him with being terribly influential in their careers,
bitter states jokes
Most jokes state a bitter truth.
optimist recovering
I'm a recovering optimist.
today television audience
Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.
new-york war rain
A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways, ya know? And they all get chummy together. Perfect strangers. The only difference, of course, is in a war it's also raining on the other side of the street and the people who are chummy over there are trying to kill the people who are over here who are chums.
funny weapons television
Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.
nature burning amazon
The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.
style
Your style is formed by what you can't do.