Paddy Chayefsky Quotes

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• 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.…
• Television is democracy at its ugliest.
• Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and…
• 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…
• I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.
• God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.
• This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings
• Television will do anything for a rating... anything!
• We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of…
• The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.
• 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…
• Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.
• You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.
• You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
• Americans don’t want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.
• We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!

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