Americans don’t want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.

- Paddy Chayefsky

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 …

- Paddy Chayefsky

Television is not the truth! Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats and story-…

- Paddy Chayefsky

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

- Paddy Chayefsky

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 ki…

- Paddy Chayefsky

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

- Paddy Chayefsky

Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.

- Paddy Chayefsky

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…

- Paddy Chayefsky

I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value!

- Paddy Chayefsky