I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.

Real power... comes not from hate, but from truth.

If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.

I feel rather like a rabbit that has taken a fox for its pupil.

There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven’t the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven’t the slightest idea what it is. … Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

My day job is making TV shows.