As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.

There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.

The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship,’ we call it ‘concern for commercial viability.

I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.