Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.

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.

If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was destined in the New World.

Faith is accepting what makes no sense, what we cannot prove, but know down deep in our souls is real.

He that will learn to pray let him to sea.

Print and digital comics will always coexist.

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

I'm very blessed and I don't take anything for granted.

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.

As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great ride.

My parents wished peace upon their firstborn child.

Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!