It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird.

"We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has."

You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.

When I was your age, television was called books.

I’ll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.

I write out of revenge.

My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!

If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.

But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.

One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.

Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite

The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

Stay innocent. I'm 69 years old, and I'm still innocent.