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.

All rhetorical questions are accusations.

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.

The audience perceives only what the actor wants to do to the other actor.

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.

The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.