Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.
The best thing that can happen is for the theme to be nice and clear from the beginning.
This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor!
I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value!