Monday, April 23, 2012

Television and Cinema Verities #16



"I've always been obsessed with the ideas of prisons in a liberal democratic society.  I believe in democracy, but the inherent danger is that with an excess of freedom in all directions we will eventually destroy ourselves."

- Patrick McGoohan, creator of The Prisoner.  From Gary Gerani's Fantastic Television (Harmony Books, 1977, page 121).
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