It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music.

I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.

The VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.

Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA.

The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.

The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

Just know I amNot there to catch youBut I am there for you

Our mind is supposed to be a well-planned system.

And make each day a critic on the last.

Once you've been overweight you never want to be overweight again, so you keep going, keep going, like for any addiction. Health can be an addiction, it doesn't have to be drugs or alcohol.

I wrote a couple of scripts on spec that didn't get made but got some attention, and I then got offers to write professionally.

I'm willing to die, but... not of boredom.

I definitely believe in the power of education. I believe the more people know, the more they are able to do what they can.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated, but not be able to say it.

The world is your oyster... ...too bad you're allergic to shellfish.