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