Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

You can find people who have discovered the fact that it's really helping people, it's really being compassionate toward other human beings that makes you happy, that gives you a spiritual fulfillment - a kind of fulfillment that goes way beyond anything you can buy.

There's nothing worse than the frustration of having somebody who you feel doesn't get what you're doing, trying to turn it into something else. It's a very, very annoying and sort of frustrating thing and I just never wanted to go through it. I was very fortunate as I came up through the film business that I was able to insulate myself from that.

Any society begins by realizing that together, by helping each other, you can survive better than if you fight each other and compete with each other.

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.