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

Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.

I love Superman. I'm a big fan of anyone who can make his living in his underwear.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply felt and meaningful. What remains? The story remains.

If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.

Every fear hides a wish.