Paddy Chayefsky
Paddy Chayefsky
Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefskywas an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for Best Screenplay...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth29 January 1923
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
men faces facts
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.
news might entertainment
Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.
humans human-beings values
I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value!
business order today
It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic, and sub-atomic, and galactic structure of things today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature! And you will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?
political style democracy
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
people broken promise
God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.
war ambition destiny
It's not greed and ambition that makes wars--it's goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons, for liberation or manifest destiny, always against tyranny and always in the best interests of humanity. So far this war, we've managed to butcher some 10,000,000 people in the interest of humanity. The next war, it seems we'll have to destroy all of man in order to preserve his damn dignity.
life god letting-go
I don't know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about truth. I just want to know the momentary fact of things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual. It's sensual. It's alive!
hero men want
You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.
drama boredom want
Americans don’t want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.
typewriters mind kind
The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.
brother pain real
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.
art thinking
Don't think of it as art, think of it as work.
football player boredom
Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom killing business.