You can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. That's why you come here. To live your story.

Dogma in power does have a unique chilling ingredient not exhibited by power, however ghastly, wielded for its own traditional sake.

The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.

Money is like the tide: It rolls in and it rolls out. If you clutch it, you are not going to keep it.

There's no such thing as addiction, there's only things that you enjoy doing more than life.

I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity.

Correct English is the slang of prigs.

Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

I hated school right away. Religion had a lot to do with it because I felt like everybody was always lying to me.

When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.