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

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It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always…
This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings
Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of…
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,…
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.
Television will do anything for a rating... anything!

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