It’s not a lie. It’s a gift for fiction.

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.

I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.

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

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.

The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).