I've always been able to survive by writing, though.

Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a piece of paper and I can kill anybody.

The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

Most artists think they're frauds anyway.

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

Why the Romans, Father?" I asked him one afternoon. "Because, my child, they teach us how to bear suffering in a world of injustice where all faith is dead, " he answered.

Relationship are like glasses, once it's broken it never be like before, as broken glass remain with the broken piece stains ever...

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

When I do stand-up shows at colleges, girls will talk to me after the show, and that always feels good. I like talking to them.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

It is love which made all this. War which protects it. With love comes responsibility and possibility, fear and hopes, quests and suffering.

If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

50s cheesecake meets Eskimo fake fur.

The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They declared that He had created the universe.

My whole life has been a twenty years struggle between poetry and prose, or, if you like to call it so, Music and Law.