I love Superman. I'm a big fan of anyone who can make his living in his underwear.

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.

We're on a mission from Glod.

Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

The greatest moments are right in front of you.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Of course I knew disco and dub from years before but I never heard such a radical new sound like house. It blew my mind!

I got fed up of listening to bollocks

Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.

Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.

I won't ask you if you ever received flowers from a man before. But it was my first, gifting flowers to a woman.