I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

The good old days are now.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."

I just want that sensation you have in dreams when you fly to be real.

I am the actor that I am. I do what I do. I've been a 'leading man' playing romantic leads for a long time now.

Writing, for me, is a search for God.

I'm not confident with the ladies. I can't just ask someone out in a club. I'd like to say I'm a gentleman.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.

More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.

I've already worked on at least a dozen dream books. I'm definitely not starving for something, like, "Agh, if only!" It's the opposite.

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society.

You made a big mistake by letting me come, because now I'm going after your job