Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.

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.

Let come the forces of night! We will stand!" "We will get the hell out of here is what we will do, " I muttered.

Maybe if I had gone on like that I could have stopped myself in time. Maybe at that point I still had it in me to come through.

Everything is possible for one who believes

Violence send deep roots into the heart, it has no seasons, it is always ripe, evergreen.

"Like a Rolling Stone" [of Bob Dylan] is a kiss-off song like none before or since.

Everybody hates you when youre the best, and everybody hates you when youre the worst.

The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.

I do think you're mad and I'll still go with you.

The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.

I'm pretty sure a lot of directors would be thrilled to cast age appropriate roles. I am.