Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed.

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

You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can’t do one of those three things, you ain’t going to get any money.

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.

I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.

The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.