Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.

Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.

Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed.

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).

The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.