We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.

I always take the audience into account.

It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.

When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.

One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.

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.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.