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00:00This is the typewriter of Paddy Chayefsky.

00:05I remember the New York Times wrote an article about Paddy Chayefsky.

00:08In his drawer, in his office, there were individual pieces of paper.

00:13And I asked him, what are these tiny little pieces of paper?

00:15He said, I collect words.

00:17The winner in New York, Paddy Chayefsky.

00:21And he also put them together beautifully.

00:25I'm ugly, I'm ugly.

00:27I'm as bad as hell!

00:29We cure nothing!

00:30I'm your wife, dammit!

00:31And the balls to do that.

00:33And if you can't wake up, I want a passion for me.

00:35The least I require is respect and allegiance.

00:38When William Holden and Faye Dunaway were in a scene going 100 miles an hour,

00:43there were three people in that scene.

00:47I mean, that's just the beginning. He's just getting warmed up.

00:49There ain't no God! Do you hear me?

00:52What Paddy was able to do...

00:54There ain't no God!

00:56To be able to articulate the anger.

00:59He's articulating the popular rage!

01:01I'm mad as hell! I'm not gonna take it anymore!

01:04I love that in film, and that's why I was attracted to him.

01:07Power to the impulse! Right on, baby!

01:09There's a lot of shouting going on.

01:11But finally what Chayefsky is about is a massive talent.

01:14You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale!

01:19It was Paddy Chayefsky and Jim Brooks woke me up to a...

01:24I think I want to do that.

01:26This war, Miss Barham, to which we Americans are so insensitive,

01:29is the result of 2,000 years of European greed, barbarism, superstition, and stupidity.

01:34Did you see Paddy as an unassuming raider, or was he someone who you knew was a force?

01:39I know!

01:40Paddy always talked about the struggle in his soul.

01:43Well, the time has come to say, is dehumanization such a bad word?

01:49He says, if we don't make the films that cut to our very marrow, then we shouldn't be doing it.

01:55When he was in the army, he wrote something called The Fugue of the Manic Depressive, which is so up my alley.

02:01I need to hear that.

02:02The complexity of balancing those two sides of himself, this outward persona,

02:06and then on the other side, this man who was plagued with a secret.

02:12He was just x-raying all of us and giving us a bill of health that was not always flattering,

02:19but was exceedingly necessary.

02:24If he wants to say, is that he has said he has not created,

02:31at least instead of saying, is the right one,

02:34we need to say that he has never been given more than this.

02:38He is the right one.

02:39If he wants to say, is that people can not be aula.

02:42What do we do?

02:43If he wants to say, is that people can understand the problem?

02:46Do the people know the truth that we need.

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