When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

I think our life is a series of adventures.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

It's about "Moments, " not Milestones.

I'd ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you. And I did. But that right there was why it was doomed.

Genius is a good deal like the sea ... Nothing can restrain its tide or quicken it.

People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

Our stand is that of the proletariat and of the masses. For members of the Communist Party, this means keeping to the stand of the Party, keeping to Party spirit and Party policy.

I've paid my price, a high price, I watched my mother die. I look at everything I've been given now as a form of compensation. A person who has regrets is a person who casts anchors.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.