Latest Larry Gelbart Quotes from Interviews

• 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.

  Larry Gelbart

  Writing, California, Southern

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so often we attribute our own feelings on to someone else.

  Larry Gelbart

  Exercise, Thinking, Imagination

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• 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.

  Larry Gelbart

  Writing, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• 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.

  Larry Gelbart

  Writing, Easy, Refuse

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• I think it makes people frustrated when they have to live their actual lives commercial free and they can't just magically wind up at the part with the happy ending.

  Larry Gelbart

  Thinking, Wind, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• I am on sort of a diet in terms of the Internet. It's the sheer quantity. It's the Niagara of opinion, of information. It's not that I have any kind of compassion fatigue. I just insist on having a life.

  Larry Gelbart

  Compassion, Information, Opinion

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• I think technology is such that we can reach new heights but we need some of the basics of the pre-technological age. It's counter-productive to be able to type a hundred words a minute but not know what the words mean.

  Larry Gelbart

  Mean, Technology, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.

  Larry Gelbart

  Writing, Make Happy, Ridiculous

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• We may be born equal but we're not equally talented.

  Larry Gelbart

  May, Born, Equal

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• Reality television is less honest than YouTube. YouTube is the real reality.

  Larry Gelbart

  Real, Television, Honest

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• I don't think you can name a good picture where the production or the possible promotion isn't "cast-contingent." That means the film needs not just star power but star box office power.

  Larry Gelbart

  Stars, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to do something that will appeal at home and abroad.

  Larry Gelbart

  Home, Differences, Example

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com