Film is a collaborative business: bend over.

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.

It is impossible to enjoy divine protection without the word of God. You must be a word addict.

The great political problem in our modern democracy is how to induce our leaders to lead.

While you can't hold on to everything forever, you're a fool if you sell back your college books at semester's end: have you learned nothing of this life?

Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, constitutes humanity.

Time travel would give humanity the ability to alter the past and prune the tree of all possible futures of those branches that had been infected by evil

Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.

I do believe a young lady can't be too careful who she marries.

How, then, can the feds justify favoring sons of Hispanics over sons of white Americans who fought in World War II or Vietnam?

If you really want to be successful and you really want to be happy, don't have a job, have a purpose. ...When you've got a purpose, the whole world is your office.

Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.