In dramatic writing, the very essence is character change. The character at the end is not the same as he was at the beginning. He's changed-psychologically, maybe even physically.

Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying

The straight roads are the roads of progress, the crooked roads are thee roads of genius.

You're dumber than you think I think you are.

Either you bring the water to L.A. or you bring L.A. to the water.

I'm not in business to be loved, but I am in business.

Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn't Colin Farrell - he was just this Irish kid who had read the script and wanted to do it.

Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.

I'm not supposed to be the one that's caught with his pants down.

The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves.

No matter how sophisticated the camera, the photographer is still the one that makes it.

A lot of stuff I do, 10 years later it becomes popular.

Crowds speak in heroes.

People are increasingly using the Internet for easy price comparisons. Also, the reliability of delivery of a product bought over the Internet has increased.

I'm a born - again atheist.

When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions.

I get through the tough times through prayer and meditation. And I have really good friends and family, and a great therapist.

The sovereign people have declared they want to take back the reins of their Destiny.

Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.