Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.

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.

I hope Limitless.. and its this Limitless hope that pushes me forward to live this Life..!!!

In the course of time, Michael Strogoff reached a high station in the Empire. But it is not the history of his success, but the history of his trials, which deserves to be related.

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

But I don't want more things than I need, either.

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

It was like the calm just as one engaged in battle, Will thought, when thought fled and inevitability took over.

You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.

Everyone should find something they love doing. Then work isn't work. It's a part of themselves. Of who they are.

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

You are facing death and danger and competition, but at any moment, you can decide to have a fearless mindset.