The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.

The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.

All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.

the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions

TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV image, that the actor must achieve a great degree of spontaneous casualness that would be irrelevant in movie and lost on the stage. For the audience participates in the inner life of the TV actor as fully as in the outer life of the movie star. Technically, TV tends to be a close-up medium. The close-up that in the movie is used for shock is, on TV, a quite casual thing.

Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.