The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.

The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

Let's just shoot in black and white. Don't explain why. Have no reason for it. Just do it because it's interesting.

If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.

One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.

Once you have a situation that is fresh, then you sort of believe in it and it becomes normal. So you do end up with protagonists that haven't been in other movies before.

Don't ever let the viewer settle in and get ahead of you.

Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.

Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.

I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!

Always be lenient with people and keep their privacy, as they can share their problems with you. These steps can help you in making your relationship strong.

Say you’re beautiful, ” I whispered, stroking her. “I’m beautiful.” “Good, ” I murmured, kissing her jaw then moving south. “Say it again.

Wise men verifies the truth of what they heard, foolish men makes conclusion based on what they heard”.

He lingered at the door, and said, 'The Lion wants courage, the Tin Man a heart, and the Scarecrow brains. Dorothy wants to go home. What do you wan

I's taken me a great deal to get here. I don't plan on missing anything.

May my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if its sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are right they are not young

Promise yourself that you will talk health, happiness, and prosperity as often as possible.

Never tell a child that something it's too hard

Benjamin Graham wrote, "Those with enterprise haven't the money, and those with money haven't the enterprise, to buy stocks when they are cheap."

It is really awkward to see myself on screen.