Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.

[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

I'm not biting my fingernails. I'm biting my knuckles. I finished the fingernails months ago.

And Kate Hepburn-God, she's beautiful, God, she plays golf well, God, she can get anyone in the world on the phone, God, she knows what to do all the time, God, she wears clothes well.

There's nothing as real as money.

Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities.

An imperfect human heart, perfectly shattered, was her conclusion. A condition so common as to be virtually universal, rendering issues of right and wrong almost incidental.

I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in everyday life.

Whatever you believe with emotion becomes reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your innermost beliefs and convictions.

In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.

Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you.

If life is worth living then it's worth recording.

Music seems to hold everything together. It seems to make things not so chaotic sometimes. It seems to make things make more sense sometimes.

You're flying Buzz! No Woody we're falling in style!

The digital process gives me total control over how I want the film to look. The films look like they did when I was first looking through the viewfinder.