Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.

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.

In the spiritual world many forms of the physical universe that are potentially effective can be perceived but with regard to time, we can observe only one form.

Brave the skeletons, darling.

When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.

After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies.

Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.

Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted.

One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society.

Our treasure is what we fear losing, and I fear that we fear losing our treasure. We are lovers of money.

Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.