Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

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.

Lake water, even when boiled, has an effect on my digestive system similar to the movement of a hangman’s trapdoor.

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.

what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost

You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport.

It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

Practice random acts of kindness... and watch Mom!

I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.