The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me.

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.

[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

I'm not biting my fingernails. I'm biting my knuckles. I finished the fingernails months ago.

And Kate Hepburn-God, she's beautiful, God, she plays golf well, God, she can get anyone in the world on the phone, God, she knows what to do all the time, God, she wears clothes well.

There's nothing as real as money.

Problems are like Balloons. We let them unnecessarily blow up.

Pain is like love

I grew up listening to blues and rock 'n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world.

To make a quick buck, but over time, if you're not creating value for others, customers, society, isn't going to let you be around.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did.

My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.

In other words, If you don't take action, you won't get any results You are not your resume, you are your work