If I could go back would I do it differently? Well, I can't go back.

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?"

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

I'm not here for the money

If you want the world to know how truly beautiful you are, love everyone.

Living a happy life is more than enough.

The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present.

It takes time to really get to know someone. Take the time because in the early months of a relationship, both parties are in the "selling" phase.

All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]

Living in the limelight: the universal dream for those who wish to SEEM. Those who wish to BE, must put aside the alienation, get on with the fascination, the real relation, the underlying theme.

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.