Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction to the protagonist.

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.

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).

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

If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.

In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.

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.