The problem with television is that the people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it. Therefore, the showmen are convinced that for this reason, if for no other, television will never be a serious competitor of broadcasting.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by favoring to attempt.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
Advise to a young Richard Roundtree
Whatever you do in this business, It's much easier than lifting heavy things.
The problem with television is that the people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it. Therefore, the showmen are…
To young actor. Eugene Roach on the subject of acting
Don't ever let 'em catch you at it.
Seeing a murder on television, can help work off one's antagonisms.
And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some!
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
Life ain't no dress rehearsal.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
Sage Advise to a Young Oregonian, Barbara Niven
If you want to make it in show business, get the hell out of Oregon!
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter,
but, that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.…
When you're down and out, something always turns up -- and it's usually the noses of your friends.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
While attending a Production Meeting
This is no place to ask questions!!
When asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
I'll moider da bum!
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
I can't wait to one day shoot in Detroit and say 'Let's have this double for Toronto'.
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
From: "Tuesday's with Morrie"
We must learn to love one another or die.... We must!
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
Do, or do not. - There is no 'try'..
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
What's this business of being a writer?
It's just putting one word after another.
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it.
I said, Thyroid problem?
I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them!
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Kiss and make up...
but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
I'll give you a definite maybe.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Why should people go out and pay to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
