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I Guess Requiem For A Heavyweight As Old As It Is Was As Honest A Piece As I've Ever Done.

It Is Difficult To Produce A Television Documentary That Is Both Incisive And Probing When Every Twelve Minutes One Is Interrupted By Twelve Dancing Rabbits Singing About Toilet Paper.

I Think The Destiny Of All Men Is Not To Sit In The Rubble Of Their Own Making But To Reach Out For An Ultimate Perfection Which Is To Be Had. At The Moment, It Is A Dream. But As Of The Moment We Clasp Hands With Our Neighbor, We Build The First Span To Bridge The Gap Between The Young And The Old. At This Hour, It’s A Wish. But We Have It Within Our Power To Make It A Reality. If You Want To Prove That God Is Not Dead, First Prove That Man Is Alive.

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.

It Has Forever Been Thus: So Long As Men Write What They Think, Then All Of The Other Freedoms - All Of Them - May Remain Intact. And It Is Then That Writing Becomes A Weapon Of Truth, An Article Of Faith, An Act Of Courage.