I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.

I'm a very boring person.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.

Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?