I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.

We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.

Film is a collaborative business: bend over.

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

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

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