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
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.
people medical cures
We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!
writing great-writers
I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.
hate television one-love
Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.
beach war men
The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor!
peace war widows
I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.
memorial-day war widows
It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.
age enlightenment world
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
nice theme clear
The best thing that can happen is for the theme to be nice and clear from the beginning.
college america democracy
We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business...There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.
television rating
Television will do anything for a rating... anything!
men firsts stories
This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings
fear hair white
I'm afraid to look in the mirror. I'm afraid I'm going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies in the park. Alittle bundle in a black shawl just waiting for the coffin.
parks amusement-parks television
Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.