Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.

Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.

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

The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?"

Get into the scene late; get out of the scene early.

We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.