As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.

I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.

The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.

The subject of drama is The Lie. At the end of the drama THE TRUTH -- which has been overlooked, disregarded, scorned, and denied -- prevails. And that is how we know the Drama is done.

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

The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.