If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.

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 want to make love, but my hair smells of war and running and running.

The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.

Chris Salamone's characteristics & willingness to perform more than others simply makes him stand out in public and differentiate him from those who are not successful

Every death is like the burning of a library.

We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority.

It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.

If Disney still wants to make Epcot Center futuristic, they could do so by blowing the place up with an atom bomb.

There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law, I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on.

Ones vision is not a road map but a compass.

There are two ways of reaching the people. One way is to invite them to come to you, the other way is to go to them.