Rene Balcer: Doing

Rene Balcer is screenwriter, producer and director. Explore interesting quotes on doing.

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“It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of a people. With that in mind, it's important to remember that the work that we do as writers, artists and performers will form an essential part of the collective memory that future generations will draw upon. And so we owe it to those future generations to defend that memory and be honest witnesses to our times.”

In a speech to the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, 12/8/09: On the duties of artists.

“I write about power, that's my real subject - how you get it, what you do with it, how you abuse it. I'm equally wary of liberals and conservatives.”

Quoted in Le Devoir, September 14, 2009, Un surdoué du crime: On his writing.

“Bad guys do what good guys dream.”

Det. Robert Goren in the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode One.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent

“Women write crime better than men do. Men tend to play it safe, relying on an old-boy's network (to get work). Women feel freer. They swing for the bleachers.”

Quoted in The New York Times , December 30, 2008, Onstage, Tackling Ambition and Crime: On Writers.

“I'm playing legal tiddlywinks with these punks. What I'd really like to do is take 'em up to Battery Park and hang 'em by the scrotum.”

ADA Jack McCoy in the Law & Order episode Thrill.
Law & Order

“It's not enough to do good. You have to be seen doing good.”

DA Arthur Branch in the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode In the Wee Small Hours.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent

“See? That's what happens when you keep people from doing what they do best: It makes them insane.”

Det. Robert Goren in Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent