Warren Littlefield Quotes

I fought to make a multiple series commitment with John Wells.

At the end of Season 1 of 'Cheers', it was the lowest rated show in all of network television ... So we turn to 'Bill Cosby'; when he came to Thursday night, he just exploded. And once the audience was there, we said, 'Hey, by the way, we also have this other great show. It's called 'Cheers'.'

I was the network president. I thought I knew everything.

Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.

Creating things sometimes is difficult.

My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one.

You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was told that I couldn't develop 'Will and Grace'.

I loved growing up in Montclair ... I think it's grown and changed and embraced change.

When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.

While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.

When we developed the 'Seinfeld' show, we took a bet on Jerry Seinfeld, who was not a household name. But Jerry had a voice. He was appearing on 'Late Night', on 'The Tonight Show', had some commercials out there, his voice of observational comedy, looking at the world around him, that voice was really starting to come into its own.

A 'Friends' shoot night could extend well into the small hours of the morning.

My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show.

'Friends' played in this territory of being funny, and then also just grabbing your heart. And not afraid of that. It was a comedic soap opera. Not being afraid to have an audience feel something, laugh and cry, was quite extraordinary and quite wonderful.

What Must-See T.V. was all about was one network, one night, for one decade. And a third of the country would come and watch Must-See T.V. And you didn't dare go to work the next day, because if you hadn't watched, you would be left out of the conversation, that water-cooler conversation.

In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.

Two hundred channel choices in most homes certainly gives you the world of choice. And so slicing it, dicing it, and offering someone their favorite thing - by the way, if it's not good enough, make it yourself and post it.