There is a big difference between manslaughter and first-degree murder.

Don't criticize something you know nothing about. It only brings people down and makes everyone miserable.

Mentors change lives, but students change mentors’ lives more.

I'm the type of person who wakes up at 12 AM just to write down a sudden idea that gets in my head. I have a never ending imagination.

For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!

Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us.

He [Michael Cimino] wasn't the typical filmmaker. I don't know if he had more in him, he certainly had a lot of scripts. I know he wrote a hell of a lot.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

I have always loved children. I've been fantasizing about motherhood since I was probably 2 ½. I loved to babysit my cousins, and nieces, you know.

I don't like to play favorites, and I do try to spread the ball around. But there's an old rule: You throw to the guys who get open in practice.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

Storytelling is the important thing.