My very first professional writing credit was on a movie called The Dunwich Horror, and Roger Corman was the executive producer.

I had a checkered early career, for sure, with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about.

What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.

Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

What use is of an eye to be open if it's not there to see! Shouldn't it rather be gauged or closed for it deceives?

You can choose to be free , but it's last decision you'll ever make

The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.

The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her.

People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a very, very interesting sort of thing to go through and it really helps you out.

New York has no truck with the past. It expels its dead.

It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.

Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they men?

There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.