You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic.

I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to. And often seem to write about situations that are too big for the characters.

I feel like if you can describe something fully and accurately, then people will be able to see it themselves - they don't need be told what to.

I like to let the actors work the way they want to.

I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies.

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

The world is really heading in a very dangerous direction, it becomes that much more valuable and important to go to the movies and see human beings that are human beings.

I've reached a new level of closeness with a new friend when I can make a joke at their expense. That's one of the great joys of life for me.

I take it as a sign of intimacy and friendship when you feel comfortable enough with someone to have a little rough and tumble.

You have unlimited resources, begin your work!

He watched her curiously from below, feeling as someone might feel watching a butterfly sit nearby, afraid to scare it off with a sound of voice or an abrupt movement.

They made you an Amendment and convinced you it meant 'American.

In the depth of our heart, we already know that we are perfect as we are. In the depth of our inner being, we already know that life is perfect as it is.

The dead can read tears.

The writer must write what he has to say not speak it.

The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema?

I usually walk six miles a day.I take my cellphone and I go out on the bike path and I just walk and work.

Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Re-clothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives thy service find, In deeper reverence praise

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.