Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.
BILL KURTISMovie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.
BILL KURTISIf you’re a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot – and you’re willing to spend a bundle to get it.
BILL KURTISThe one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say ‘we’ll let it go this time,’ you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.
BILL KURTISI’ve been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.
BILL KURTISFirst of all, I’m a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it’s at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There’s just a good feel to it.
BILL KURTISPolitics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney’s office leading.
BILL KURTISIn L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it’s pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.
BILL KURTISI’ve been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.
BILL KURTISIf you’re a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot – and you’re willing to spend a bundle to get it.
BILL KURTISI travel so much on stories, so I don’t take vacation much, but one place I go back to again and again is my ranch.
BILL KURTISThe prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it’s predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.
BILL KURTISThere’s room for a diversity of ages on television.
BILL KURTISI’d like ‘Morning News’ to become a great first edition electronic newspaper, so that the ‘New York Times’ will want to watch us.
BILL KURTISAll vacations can come down to a few little moments – what do your remember when you’re alone, totally relaxed and taken out of yourself to appreciate this other world.
BILL KURTISI think I’m so old I’m in. We call it the ‘Tony Bennett Syndrome.’ For some reason, young people think I’m cool.
BILL KURTISI never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience that I had gained in 30 years, but in a slightly different direction.
BILL KURTIS