Politics has become entertainment.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his position to the satisfaction of our creative freedom.

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

No argument, no reasoning, no blame, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

Women are attracted to bad boys not because they want to fall in love… we just want to ride on the backs of their motor bikes.

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he's a dirty little beast.

As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.

The applause of silence. is the only kind that counts.

'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.

On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures.

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.

We have taken a strategic decision to gather education activities under a single roof.

What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being independent of the good opinions of other people.