It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of them - John Faulkner, whoever, Aldous Huxley.

Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff.

I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.

Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's any good.

I don't mean to talk so much about screenplay writing. Who wants to talk about screenplay writing? I've taught it and I felt like a charlatan because what I was teaching I probably couldn't do.

It's better to have a million small religions with each one containing a great truth. Than one great religion containing a million small truths.

We all need salespeople who deliver value that wasn’t there before they arrived.

Well, you know, in America everybody is interested in making the dollar fast. In Yugoslavia no matter how much you hustle you're not going to get rich, so you might as well play chess.

You gotta turn with the times, or the times gonna turn on you.

Socialism is always wrong.

Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next will be drawn in blood.

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more.

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether.