Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it.

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

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

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

The best thing that can happen is for the theme to be nice and clear from the beginning.

All my brothers, my brothers-in-law, they're always telling me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you get to be a real professor of pain.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.