This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.

I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.

We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business...There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!

This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.