There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.

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We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

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TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.

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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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Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case.

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I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it.

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Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.

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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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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.

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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.

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