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New York City is as much a part of every 'Law Order' ensemble as the actors.

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TV is not about ideas. It's about execution. And writing and casting. That's why most of TV drama's biggest stars have been character actors, not romantic leads. Peter Falk. Telly Savalas. Angela Lansbury. They can inhabit a role for years, and that's the TV challenge. I like to say a successful movie lasts 110 minutes. A successful TV series lasts 110 hours.

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There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric.

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Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.

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When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people Why should we watch them

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Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'

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Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

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No blood on the floor.

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The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.

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There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie.

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I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.

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It's a very competitive business. And everybody I know who does it is extremely competitive, but they show it or don't show it in different ways.

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It's show business. No show, no business.

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I was incredibly upset, disappointed, dismayed, any other adjectives that you could care to add.

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And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.

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I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

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I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.

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Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.

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If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.

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Everyone connected with 'Conviction' is excited about being part of the breaking wave of a brand new technology.

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Crime is a constantly renewable resource. Every day people continue to kill each other in bizarre and unfathomable ways. Even if murder goes down by double digits, there are still thousands of people killed in this country every year and killers who warrant prosecution.

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When you have four shows on a network, some decisions you're going to agree with and other decisions you're going to violently disagree with. You've heard me violently disagree with other decisions (and) it has absolutely no effect on the decision-making process.

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I'm thrilled that we are continuing to do what this remarkable team has done so successfully for the past 16 years--create episodes that excite, educate, disturb and sometimes, even infuriate our audiences.

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We are all saddened by the loss of Gregory Hines, one of the most versatile performers of his generation, ... Law Order.

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The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.

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