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

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.

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.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

It is the little act of kindness that touches our heart and blossom our life with gladness.

At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.

I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making.

I never take photographs myself. I don’t feel like a photographer, more like a recycler

I never waste time looking back.

The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

There are three great truths, 1st, That there is a God; 2nd, That He has spoken to us in the Bible; 3rd, That He means what He says.

Missy is really a man. She's a cross dresser. She hangs out with Sammartino. They shave each other's back.

In fact, I think more broadly about what an audience requires, but I want an audience to be fascinated by the process of finding an answer, or finding out there isn't one.

Pledge that you will look in the mirror and find the unique beauty in you.