We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.

Bias and prejudice make me angry...more than anything.

You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end is the beginning.

I just want people to remember me a hundred years from now. I don't care that they're not able to quote any single line that I've written. But just that they can say, "Oh, he was a writer." That's sufficiently an honored position for me.

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

Most screenplays, most motion pictures, owe much more to the screenplay. Ingmar Bergman has such an economy of language, so little language in his piece, it is so visual, his moods are introduced and buttressed by camera rather than by word or character. But again, that's unique.

If it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it'll sound good when an actor's saying it.