Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.

My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.

Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.

What I value most in my friends is loyalty.