Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.
I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.
Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.
If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.
I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.
Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.