For many celebrities, securing the publics votes can prove even more reassuring than winning an election by members of the Motion Picture Academy.

The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence

If you believe that when the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, then you believe that creating wealth causes poverty, and you're an idiot.

Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.

Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological.

Why is it offensive to portray a creep and a murderer as a homosexual, but totally acceptable to present him as a religious Christian?

The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties.

Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it

Never defend yourself, but define yourself with your imagination and actions.

Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other - made up - people's problems and conflicts made my own seem less terrible, less real.

Men's requirements of women are impossible and ridiculous and so destructive.

I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given.

Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.

I have to photograph where I am.

There can be no truce between science and religion.

Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products.

I guess, you make a big studio film, you spend a lot of money on it and you hope people go see it. It's really risky.

I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.