The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.

Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.

My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment.

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.

I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.

The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).