Clifford Irving Quotes

I think trials are inherently dramatic and interesting and are always going to be part of the news.

For a while, people couldn't understand why I'd find them so fascinating, but I'd rather go to a trial than to a Broadway play. Now that we have Court TV, they see what I mean.

I didn't attend any of the court proceedings.

I can write dramas that are about inside and outside the courtroom.

Now I have been studying very closely what happens every day in the courts in Boston, Massachusetts. You would be astounded--maybe you wouldn't, maybe you have been around, maybe you have lived, maybe you have thought, maybe you have been hit--at how the daily rounds of injustice make their way through this marvelous thing that we call "due process.

I don't know that I could do a procedural legal drama and spend all my time in a courtroom talking legal jargon that I don't necessarily understand.

Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.

No one can just file a charge and go directly to a jury trial. That just cannot happen.

I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed.

I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in.

Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.

Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice.

We should not televise trials. There's only one purpose for a criminal trial. It's to determine whether or not the defendant committed the crime. Anything that interferes or has the potential of interfering with that should automatically be prohibited.

I'm thrilled to have a completely new audience that I can get from Court TV, without it being my own trial. That was the only other way I would have gotten it.

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.

I'd love to do a court-room drama. I loved 'Ally McBeal.' That was one of the main reasons I went to law school.

Scientific issues are litigated far more often than constitutional ones.

I've led a grand jury.

I agree with Scott Turow: A courtroom is inherently dramatic. You walk into court - it's like an ER, you know? Life and death is going on there. And it's moment-by-moment, and it's packed with energy. And even though you think you know what a witness is going to say, you can be wrong. Witnesses surprise you.

Nobody likes going to court.

The court dramas shown in films and TV are often superficial. They should have a gripping storyline, which can keep the audience hooked.

I find these dramas fascinating - it's a world that many of us fortunately don't dip into. The legal system is all around us, but the majority of us don't have to go into a court, so it's a way into another world that is unusual.

The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.

Emotional truths woven by lawyers in the court of law are apparently more important than the truths of actual events. I have grown to fear for those whose innocence became trapped within the legal system.

The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.