I want to make accessible movies for bright people, but I don't want to play games and be coy.

In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's green. Stand under it, during a rainstorm, you'll still get wet - that's why it's art.

People are usually pretty hungry after a funeral. I guess it's because we all realize that time is running out and we better eat all we can. Please don't mention that to my mother.

I feel like there's a certain kind of laughter missing in the world.

I don't want to write my life. I live my life. I want to make up a new world.

I want to write stories that don't help you escape life, but embrace life.

There is nothing more depressing than toast that no one eats.

People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.

I spent so many years trying to become an actor, trying to be a person that I wasn't.

The bigger the budget, the less an audience is trusted, and that's the difference between a big-budget film and a small-budget film.

My job as a dramatist is to find out where these characters want to go, and make it as hard as possible for them to get there.

It is not enough to be busy so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.

A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.

The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.

We love not just Judas Priest music, but we love heavy metal and we love to get out on that stage every night and perform. It's a joy to be able to do it.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

You only stay in front by coming up with ideas your new competitors haven't thought of yet.

In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.