I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to. And often seem to write about situations that are too big for the characters.

I feel like if you can describe something fully and accurately, then people will be able to see it themselves - they don't need be told what to.

I like to let the actors work the way they want to.

I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies.

You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic.

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

The world is really heading in a very dangerous direction, it becomes that much more valuable and important to go to the movies and see human beings that are human beings.

I've reached a new level of closeness with a new friend when I can make a joke at their expense. That's one of the great joys of life for me.

I take it as a sign of intimacy and friendship when you feel comfortable enough with someone to have a little rough and tumble.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Exercise daily to keep an active life.

Life is like a sandwich! Birth as one slice, and death as the other. What you put in-between the slices is up to you. Is your sandwich tasty or sour?

The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.

We make a lot of mistakes for women, and we'll always do it again.

Well, I really think that shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.

Who fastest walks, but walks astray, Is only furthest from his way.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.