In any film there's always a historical implication.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

I think our life is a series of adventures.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Reading a good book is an escape to an alternative life, writing a good book is the closest thing to actually living that life.

Imagination is glorious riches of mystery.

The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask.

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

If you take the time away, you take the character away.

Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound ... my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks

NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid of the artificial surfaces.

A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.

I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.