You're not such a dog as you think you are.

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

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!

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.

You're not such a dog as you think you are.

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!