Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his position to the satisfaction of our creative freedom.

Politics has become entertainment.

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.

I'd love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

Well, if someone has got all the money in the world, they'd still want love.

Only in America does 'health' 'care' 'reform' begin with the hiring of 16,500 new IRS agents tasked with determining whether your insurance policy merits a fine.

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

Frankly, I could use a little sugarcoating.

There is nothing that exists that has only one side. Even a piece of paper, thin as it is, has two sides.

Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.

I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.