Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it.

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.

Let's not grow with our roots in the ground.

Sleeping with a guy isn't the same thing as opening your heart to him.

Even when I haven't had money, I found money to travel. It's a luxury that's a kind of necessity, I think.

I do have a lucky pair of underwear.

It sounded like a very loud vacuum cleaner behind us.

And I'll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.

One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.

If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.

Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there. "Still in the showers," said Fred. "We think he's trying to drown himself.

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'