God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor!

Television is not the truth! Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats and story-tellers, singers and dancers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion-tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business!

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.

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

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.