Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a piece of paper and I can kill anybody.

The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

Most artists think they're frauds anyway.

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

It is only the strong Christian family unit that can survive the coming world holocaust.

... as we travel again between life and death, Waking and dream, blinking, while layers within layers, None better, none worse, unravel and knit up before us . . .

Leave it to a vampire to think a healthy guy in his late thirties or early forties was on his deathbed.

Is your appearance representing you well and helping you achieve the results you desire or could you use a style makeover?

The web and its technologies are digital representations of everything we did before in a more private, bigger, faster and more empowering format than ever before.

I don't spend my hours plotting for somebody else's downfall.

The Bible is the story of two gardens. Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it. I don't know all the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone.

Men of vision caught glimpses of truth and beauty shining aloft like stars: and in these glimpses was a new hope for the unification of mankind through enlightenment.

There are differences in the businesses themselves, but the fundamentals are the same: give customers a good experience, charge them a reasonable price, listen to them, and treat them with respect.