I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

Forgiveness is the best way to disempower an enemy.

...ethics were in most cases a burden that could be reasonably ignored in pursuit of necessity.

The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.

There are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder.

The little done doth vanish to the mind which forward sees how much remains to do.

You've gotta wonder what kind of vibe you're putting out there if you're having really creepy people come talk to you.

Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.

Until Eve gave him the apple, Adam didn't even know he wasn't wearing underpants.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

ALS does not affect cognitive process. Stephen Hawking, one of smartest people on the planet, has ALS. It rarely affects the eyes. It doesn't affect senses like hearing, taste and touch.