The pilot system in television is utterly broken. It's a huge waste of money.

Producers are now employees, not creators.

The producer is at the center of entertainment. The producer is being forgotten, and producers must seize the center of activity.

Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children.

The world is filled with terrible things that can influence children, and movies have depicted them since time immemorial. Should every terrible thing warrant an R-rating?

One of the reasons the producers' credit has been so weakened in recent years, and given to people who didn't deserve it, was that people didn't understand what producers did.

Superficial people consider themselves capable of doing everything. The question, however, is who is willing to hire them?

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

Knowledge is abundant, but wisdom is rare.

I hope I'm saving lives. There are very few people in their careers that have the opportunity to do something to benefit mankind.

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

I seem to be able to get along with anybody when I work because I really enjoy being there.

True forgiveness is one of the most healing releasing, and freeing gifts we give to ourselves.

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

Nothing is more difficult to accomplish than changing outward actions without changing inward feelings.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . .