Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.

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.

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

Never sleep with anybody who has more problems than you do.

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for.

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