The images in a dream are vastly varied and magnificently interesting.

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.

The pause .... where wisdom has space to appear

A fearless heart is free of desire, a kind heart finds paradise everywhere.

Why do I always forget that traffic is a social affair?

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

Acting gets into your blood, after so many years, and I just always like revisiting it. It's fun to meet new people and watch them coming along, at different stages of their careers.

It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past

All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.

I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating and making the best music you can.