I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core.

The best stories infuse wonder.

Don't give [the audience] four; give them two plus two.

I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.

That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.

Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.

Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.

A giving attitude is the key to the door of abundance.

Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art.

What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.

No one has the ability, that I'm aware of, to do anything supernatural, psychic, talk to the dead.

In the year 3000, everything will be instant.

The woman's personal identity is a vast undiscovered country -- with which Society has yet to acquaint itself, and by which it is yet to be revolutionized.

I went straight from shenanigans to crimes against humanity.

But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.

If I ain't learning, it ain't fun.

Of course there is nothing the matter with the stars It is my emptiness among them While they drift farther away in the invisible morning