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.
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.
nice theme clear
The best thing that can happen is for the theme to be nice and clear from the beginning.
parks amusement-parks television
Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.
humans human-beings values
I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value!
political style democracy
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
hate television one-love
Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.
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.
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.
dog men thinking
You're not such a dog as you think you are.