American Quotes

I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.

I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time.

I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.

Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.

Different people work different ways.

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basically everything but moats. They're feudal societies, and there are good ones and bad ones.

Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?

You can keep a person locked up too long.

There will always be a father.

There is an appropriate time to release somebody or to give them a break.

See you in the darkness.

It's my life and my death.

It's been sanctioned by the courts, and I accept that.

I've got problems and if you sentence me to additional time, I'm going to compound them.

I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.

I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.

I am finally glad to see that the jury is looking at me.

The best things arrive on time.

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.