Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs?

If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.

On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.

God save me from myself.

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

I hate that word. It's return--a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen.