For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

I won't ever do e-mail.

You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.

The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.

Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.

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.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.