[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right.

Commitment is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it gets.

Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.

I don't think of myself as a dissident, and I'm more of an immigrant than an exile.

Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.

[A photograph] should do something to the beholder; either give a more complete appreciation of beauty, or, if nothing else, even a good mental kick in the pants.

As screenwriters, we struggle with our own success. We have wallpapered our world and now we can't get anyone to notice the picture we just hung.

I'd run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl.

Every voting choice you exercise ought to be for the candidate, platform, party, or policy that will best represent the values of the kingdom of God.

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.