There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.

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.

What I see here is nothing but a shell. What is most important is invisible...

What begins in fear usually ends in folly.

The Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don't know his past you just know what his plans are.

The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.

I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding.

He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted.

If you believe in justice, surely you believe in the hereafter, because this world is not just.

I went to do my first big movie when I was 17. I was in South Africa for three and half months, and I was by myself.

I joined gamblers anon., they gave me 2 to 1 I wouldn't make it! I joined AA, there was a two drink minimum!

There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.