Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.

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.

An Oak tree is a daily reminder that great things often have small beginnings.

When the crucified Jesus is called "the image of the invisible God, " the meaning is that THIS is God, and God is like THIS.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it's been quite smooth over there. We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

My dad's great. He's my biggest supporter. He's always told me that whatever I choose to do, I can do it. I just gotta put my mind to it.

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is "AUTHENTICITY".

Kids don’t do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?

We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards?

There's so many examples of just how lucky we are to be born anywhere in this world that is free.