Shake your business up and pour it. I haven't got all day.

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.

Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.

And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles.

The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.