Most Screenplays, Most Motion Pictures, Owe Much

I Don't Feel, God Dictated That I Should Write.

You Could Do Much More In Movies Than You Could On Tv, And Even Movies Were Heavily Censored. But In Television, The Areas Of Timorousness Were Fairly Laid Out. Race Relations. Sex. Politics. There Was A Whole Conglomeration Of Taboo Themes. And Even To Date, Though Television Has Become A Much Freer Medium, It's Still Far Less Free, Far Less Creatively Untrammeled Than Are The Movies. They're Infinitely More Adult In That Respect.

Emmies, For Example, Most Of That's Bullshit. Oscars Are Even Worse. We Have A Strange, Terrible Affliction In This Town. Everybody Walks Around Bent-backed From Slapping Each Other On The Backs So Much. It Looks Like Arthritis But It Isn't. It's Hunger For Recognition. And It's Sort Of Like, Well, I'll Scratch You This Time If You'll Scratch Me Next Time. That Kind Of Thing.

I Choose To Think Of Tv Audience As Nameless, Formless, Faceless People Who Are All Like Me. And Anything That I Write, If I Like It, They'll Like It.

There Are Weapons That Are Simply Thoughts. For The Record, Prejudices Can Kill And Suspicion Can Destroy.