My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.

The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

It's not the average people that come to my show.

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

The average American is more focused on leadership than likeability. And more focused on qualifications than quality of speakership.