I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.

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.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.

Where there is creativity there is hope and Haiti is the most hopeful place I've experienced

Design is the key to everything. If you learn how to design you can do anything.

When you watch Robin Williams, you can see a lot of Jonathan Winters. Robin is the first one to admit that; he worshiped Jonathan Winters.

It's HE-RO," the boy argued. "No," the girl insisted, "it's HER-O.

I am concerned that a film without an large advertising [budget] can not establish a connection with contemporary audiences, of course.

What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.

I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.