Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director.

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?"

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

IF YOU DON'T GO AFTER WHAT YOU WANT

The biggest roadblock to changing the world is believing that your voice doesn't matter.

To know aberrations is to become involved with them.

Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers.

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what we do as scientists or technologists.

They can't stop you if, in your heart, you seek enlightenment, empowerment, balance and knowledge.

I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.

What's wrong with technology is that it's not connected in any real way with matters of the spirit and of the heart. And so it does blind, ugly things quite by accident and gets hated for that.

No more crying. It's all wetness and no comfort at all.