It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.

I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.

Actors want to work. Give them characters they want to play, or a story they want to tell, and hopefully the budget will follow.

For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.

I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.

We didn't miss it. This is it. C'mon. You wanna go home?

Routine is part of coping.

What do they call it, Y.O.L.A., you only live once? I think people are sort of gravitating towards that.

Make the movie your way. Surround yourself with people who know more than you.

I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important.

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.

We were of thirteen minds, like a tree, in which there is one Red-tail and eleven squirrel parts.

Trouble is, we call politics a game, but it isn't one. There is no referee, and the teams make up the rules as they go along. You can't cry foul or offside in politics. Almost anything goes.

Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.

There's no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you're doing a single-camera anything, whether it's a sitcom or drama or film. And I do mean that in the best way.

Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.

I would suggest the taxation of all property equally whether church or corporation.