People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu.

Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience. To think of a plot that is, as Aristotle says, surprising and yet inevitable, is a lot, lot, lot of work.

The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.

The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.