[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me.

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.

I'm not biting my fingernails. I'm biting my knuckles. I finished the fingernails months ago.

And Kate Hepburn-God, she's beautiful, God, she plays golf well, God, she can get anyone in the world on the phone, God, she knows what to do all the time, God, she wears clothes well.

There's nothing as real as money.

There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower.

No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame. For one person, in the dark where no one will ever know or see.

If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.

I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.

Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal.

Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.

I am the servant of my score.

Although our eyes can not penetrate the darkness of the future, scientific geopolitical analysis enables us to make certain predictions.

I think anybody who's been a part of a kid's life, you hope that when they go out into the world, that they surround themselves with the right people and don't find themselves in trouble.

It is to our advantage to have securities do nothing price-wise for months, or perhaps years, while we are buying them.