Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction.

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.

Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world

Whenever I've been bitten, it's because I made a mistake. I either misread the dog's body language or let my guard down at the wrong time.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Every departure from class struggle has fatal results for the destiny of socialism.

Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.

It is not so much what we say or do that educates; what really educates is who we are.

American society has gone completely into denial.

We need to focus on destroying ISIL, but we shouldn't be the ones declaring that [Bashir] Assad must go.

Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease.

The minute we decide that one person doesn´t matter anymore, they´ve won.