In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.

Donald Trump announces this morning that he will run for president. His hair will announce on Friday.

How many people didn't get a part who would have been better than the person who got the part? Thousands.

I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.

I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a better L.A. movie about a certain period in L.A.? That was terrific.

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.