The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

Art is about the spontaneous connection of the artist to his own unconscious - about insight beyond reason. If his insight were reasonable, anyone could do it, but anyone cannot. Only few can, and they are called.

The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.

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.

Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?"