To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.

As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.

I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.

Film is a collaborative business: bend over.

If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.

The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.