I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his position to the satisfaction of our creative freedom.

Politics has become entertainment.

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

The heart of the home beats in the kitchen and a healthy one beats three times a day

Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Anyone who lives inside the US can never be considered an outsider anywhere in the country

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.

I would've done it for you in a heartbeat.

I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.

Never settle for the crumbs of life.

I have to make a lot of decisions that aren't in the best interests of individuals, whether they be owners, club executives, players.

When I think of invention, I always think of America. You're always seeing ads: 'Have you got the next big idea?' There seems to be that spirit in America of inventions and inventors.