TV Quote of the Week

To all you Johnny-come-latelies out there, you who had this business handed to you like an inheritance and a legacy, all of you, you who never had to scramble or bleed to give birth to it or keep it alive, let me say this:

There were a lot of people who couldn’t speak English so good, that paved the way for you. And they broke their backs, and they did it in cellars, and they did it in attics trying to figure out which way to aim the camera so all of you “Angry Young Men” could say that you were part of an art form.

Now I’m speaking of people like Jesse Lansky, D. W. Griffith, Mack Sennett, and let us not forget a funny little man with baggy trousers and a Nazi moustache. They had talent. They loved what they were doing, and people loved them for doing it. But you don’t love to make movies, and that is a shame. Because you don’t know what you’re missing.
--Rod Steiger, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theater, “Slow Fade to Black”