Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.

The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.

Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing.

Story is about originality, not duplication

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

Aristotle said time is a measure of change, and this movie is about changing in time, through time, while remaining the same person. That's a philosophical paradox and a moral dilemma. But 'Casablanca' says it's possible. You can have both. That's what it means. And that's my wish for you: that you would have both.