Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting" .

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his position to the satisfaction of our creative freedom.

Politics has become entertainment.

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

Life is not about negative circumstances that happen to you, it's about what you do with the golden opportunities hidden within!

Controlling your emotions is the biggest challenge for a horseman.

A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.

Well, if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes. There is no deeper meaning behind things that gives me a reason to be here.

What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.

We can make the trains run on time but if they are not going where we want them to go, why bother?

America is the world's policeman, all right -- a big, dumb, mick flatfoot in the middle of the one thing cops dread most, a "domestic disturbance.

The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.

We should strive for steadiness, and for a commitment to God that does not ebb and flow with the years or the crises of our lives.