Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.
The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor!
It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.
Don't think of it as art, think of it as work.
I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.
The best thing that can happen is for the theme to be nice and clear from the beginning.