I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.

Making "bad people" seem human is the key to making them really scary.

By spending love, you increase the value of your life.

Don't overdo the booze especially while flying - just because it's there doesn't mean you need to drink it. Everything in moderation.

The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.

How would you like it if, at your job, every time you made the slightest mistake a little red light went on over your head and 18,000 people stood up and screamed at you?

People know what I'm doing.

It is more important to just be as honest as I can about my characters than to write some really great sentence.

Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.

We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.

Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a farmer with a professional concern for the weather.

My mantra is "I don't want to let anybody down." Maybe that's not the right attitude, because you can't please everybody. But I'm giving it everything I've got.