I think it's an intellectual duty for a person who lives in a free society to read material not only with which you agree, but with which you disagree. Because every so often somebody you think is wrong will actually turn out to be right.

Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp.

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not... Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it... Because the dream is within you. No one can take your dream away.

America is the most inventive country in the world. Why? Because everybody has access to information. In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them.

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.