I've always had trouble with authority.

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.

People will print what they will capturing but try to give the real image through positive thinking for that you will prove them how they are wrong!

The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.

I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.

I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem.

Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?

When I get the chance, I'm at the theaters all the time, trying to check out the latest movies.

XM radio doesn't have commercials, so after about thirty minutes of listening to it, I'm like, "What should I buy?"

one doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger.

That's very funny," says Peeta. Suddenly he lashes out at the glass in Haymitch's hand. It shatters on the floor, sending the bloodred liquid running toward the back of the train. "Only not to us.

Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.