Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.

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.

I am confident, I am capable, and I will not wait to be rescued by a woodsman or a hunter.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.

[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

The present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the future ones, as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantest prospect.

The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws.

If managers knew how deeply their behaviors could affect brain function - whether they are piling up too much work on someone or yelling at them for "motivational purposes", they would quit doing it.

Thousands and thousands of colors paint the bosom of the earth so gaily.

The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.