the boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?

The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.

A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.

Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it.

Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.

We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more than others. Writers are explorers

Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.

I never have a problem with finding material. I wait for it to turn up, and it always turns up. It’s dealing with the material I’m inundated with that poses the problem.

Obviously, if Congress wants to talk about anything, we're happy to provide information. We're committed to moving forward under the current act.

Brunettes are troublemakers. They're worse than the Jews.

I think Americans such as Leviathan have done a lot to expand the sonic palette of black metal.

Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do.

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

I love a man in a suit. Men should stay clothed, even if they have nice bodies.

Harvey Weinstein is a monster. And what campus victims are talking about has a lot more gray in it - many more complexities.