No texting. What happens then? Good old-fashioned letters.

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.

Tell yourself ' I can'. And you will be capable to act.

I've never been the most important person to anybody - not even myself.

Truth and honesty are some of the most powerful principles to developing a nation.

A young man who doesn't have the foresight to seek out the girl he wants to be with and actively pursue her, doesn't deserve her.

If my thought-dreams could be seen/ They'd probably put my head in a guillotine.

I hate that stuff. It tastes like feet." At that he smiled. "How would you know what feet taste like?" "I just know.

Couture gowns are like gremlins; you can't expose them to bright light or get them wet.

Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they'll know it too.

The real bubble in China is in US Treasuries, in US dollars.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.