In Detroit, we all talked the race game. It is a way of life.

Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.

I'm sad now, the way we're talking is infinitely sad: faded music, faded paper flowers, worn satin, an echo of an echo. All gone away, no longer possible.

What we expect, that we find.

The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.

The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we're not encountering a celebrity.

My gratitude to Ridley [Scott] isn't anything new. I named one of my kids after him. But he's a very important person to me.