Norman Lear
Norman Lear
Norman Milton Lear is an American television writer and producer who produced such 1970s sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times, and Maude. As a political activist, he founded the advocacy organization People for the American Way in 1981 and has supported First Amendment rights and progressive causes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Producer
Date of Birth27 July 1922
CityNew Haven, CT
CountryUnited States of America
I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.
My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.
But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.
We just had a wonderful time. It was a very different time in our culture, generally.
Well, they're all family shows - they're all about families, and they're all about America. That's how I grew up. Those are my people, all of them.
We intend to travel it across the country because it is the living document that set this nation up, ... And it lives today, and those words are for everybody. We want to remind everybody of them.
I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times.
It's a happy coincidence that when we bought the Fantasy catalog we were also able to sign one of the most relevant and talented singer-songwriters of our generation. We're all enormous fans of his music. He's a big hero here.
Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play.
At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings.
I think David E. Kelley, with his new deal, is vastly underpaid,
I know a lot of white people who have a lot more money than I do.
Instead of keeping it in private hands on some wall someplace, this will travel to schools, to libraries in 50 states.
I like getting up in the morning, and I like better having something to do when I get up in the morning.