Writer Quotes

I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it.

I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.

I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.

From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better.

Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.

Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life.

And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.

I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.

From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.

Somebody ought to tell him his ambition is showing.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.

A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.

A hamburger by any other name costs twice as much.

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.

A husband is like a fire - he goes out when unattended.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

It was enough just to sit there without words.