It's only words... unless they're true.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.

Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

The job of the artist, is to say, wait a second, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let's re-examine it.

The audience requires not information but drama.

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.

Every fear hides a wish.

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.

Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.

I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.

We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?

We all die in the end, but there's no reason to die in the middle.

Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.

If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract 'movies,' and the result is 'zero.'

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.