I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take..

There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today..

There is this thing about time that you can't see at the time you're at..

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works..

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't….

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is ….

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process..

I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain valu….

I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power..

We're all divided, but some of us have children, and we are invested in the future and would like to see good things happen..

As a dramatist, I don't have politics..

I feel like I am what I am..

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism..

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that..

I love the act of writing. I like the quiet, internal aspect of it. If I lost track of that, I couldn't direct the same way. I couldn't be a director….

Hell is the impossibility of reason..

In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association abo….

In digital, you can maintain the quality..

Now with digital, we have much better projection, and if the theaters are charging higher prices but providing refreshments and a clean, well-lit the….

With television, the image has been degenerated, no question. With the internet, commercials... people are much too cynical about image. It's stale. ….

My home in Hollywood is not a home. I do a film here, a film there, as they want it. I don't have a relationship. Like, Warner Bros. has a great rela….