It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

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.

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.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

If I wanted you to understand, I would have explained it better ~ Aarush Kashyap

I was trained to turn loneliness into laziness.

Waiting makes wine better

Having you close like this makes me forget the reasons why this won’t work. We will never work.

Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run

Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK.

I had to force myself not to be overly protective because I had lost one child.

Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly.

The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing.

It is our responsibility to learn to become emotionally intelligent. These are skills, they’re not easy, nature didn’t give them to us - we have to learn them.