The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.

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.

WisdomSufian said: 'The wisdom which is invisible but which sustains is a hundred times better than the appearance of wisdom, for that has itself to be sustained.

the road is life

Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.

There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.

At the same time, we're going to take care of our military and we're going to take care of our great, great, great veterans.

The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'

Inflation is a form of tax, a tax that we all collectively must pay.

No one knows what is going to happen in the next few minutes, and yet people still go forward, because they have trust, because they have faith.

You can tell me anything you want to about investment, but you can't move no money of mine, so I know where all of mine is. Now, if we ain't got a lot, it's our fault.