I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.

I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.

Actors want to work. Give them characters they want to play, or a story they want to tell, and hopefully the budget will follow.

For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.

I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.

We didn't miss it. This is it. C'mon. You wanna go home?

Routine is part of coping.

What do they call it, Y.O.L.A., you only live once? I think people are sort of gravitating towards that.

Make the movie your way. Surround yourself with people who know more than you.

I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important.

I don’t want to be an anti, against anybody. I simply want to be the builder of a great affirmation: the affirmation of God, who loves us and who wants to save us.

Don’t just be everywhere, be everywhere that your clients are, where you matter most.

[Hillary Clinton] is going to raise taxes $1.3 trillion.

You have delighted us long enough.

Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere

There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.

We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.

The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.

It is such a splendid sunny day and I have to go.

I’d wait forever for you, as long as you’re mine.