Paddy Chayefsky Quotes
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it.
Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If you’re not an artist, at least you can do a good day’s work.
It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.
Americans don’t want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.
Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.
Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.
God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.
The best thing that can happen is for the theme to be nice and clear from the beginning.
We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!
I'm afraid to look in the mirror. I'm afraid I'm going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies in the park. Alittle bundle in a black shawl just waiting for the coffin.
This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.
Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.
