The audience requires not information but drama.

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

The liberals in my neighbourhood wouldn't give away Brentwood to the Palestinians, but they want to give away Tel Aviv.

Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.

I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.