The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.

The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value. It also cast aside the objective measure of justice and ethics which, he decided, was the principal legacy of religion to civilized life.