For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.

They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.

It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.

If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

Charity is suppose to cover up for a multitude of sins.

The power of Hollywood, as we know, is that it can create these images in people's minds, and they live with those images for their whole life.

people are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness.

I would agree with you that there's 90% imitation and 10% innovation. That's true of any genre.

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

If it's going to really make them happy for me to do it, I'll do Walken. I've got no problem with it at all.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.