Paddy Chayefsky Quotes, Thoughts and images

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.

The best thing that can happen is for the theme to be nice and clear from the beginning.

Americans don’t want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.

I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value!

Don't think of it as art, think of it as work.

Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.

This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

You're not such a dog as you think you are.

Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.

Television will do anything for a rating... anything!

Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.

The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor!