You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

Billy Wilder

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.

You're as good as the best thing you've ever done.

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.

If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Robert Kagan said the neocons couldn't get a better president than Hillary Clinton, who would enforce the neocon foreign policy. No one's questioned it.

In digital, you can maintain the quality.

I am a storyteller, and I do love ideas.

Conspiracy nut, leftist, madman. These are terms of dismissal so you don't have to listen to the argument. It would be healthier and more fun to hear what someone has to say.

Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.