Usually the characters are where I start. Then I continually ask myself, 'What's the worst thing that could happen to this character?'

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.

We crash into each other just so we can feel something.

We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.

I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

You have to be careful of the advice you take.

You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come out. If there's a half dozen, that would be a big day.

To utter a word? no that will only heavy the air you breath, for your eyes speak more then your pretty mouth

What separates the best from the rest is just the attitude.

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

The porcupine whom one must handle gloved may be respected but is never loved.

To Sorrow I bade good-morrow And thought to leave her far away behind But cheerly cheerly She loves me dearly: She is so constant to me and so kind.

Ask yourself always: how can this be done better?

Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility.

Your profits reflect the success of your customers.

Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.

The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show.