All rhetorical questions are accusations.

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?"

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

HereI'm here-the snow falling.

Every time I move I squash something said Loathesome.

To be a leader you need a lot of people dumb enough to follow.

Jazz stands for freedom.

There is no more foul or relentless enemy of man in the occult world than this dead-alive creature spewed up from the grave.

The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in.

Every 13 seconds in America someone uses a gun - not to kill someone, but to stop a crime.

every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.

I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.

[Shoji] Hamada seldom drew an exact drawing of a pot that he was going to make.