Filmmaking is such a collaboration. At a certain point, I suppose you do have to let go and trust the people you're working with..

I don't know why, but I always feel a kind of necessity to write things that are beyond acceptance, that are too offensive or something. For people t….

We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s skin, so to speak. That’s why we re….

One of the dangers of making a movie about young people is it's potentially trite..

There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that taboo seems….

I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is..

When you travel, you can see lots of great buildings and monuments and stuff, but the best part of traveling is meeting people as you go. Those are t….

As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people..

Oral history is a research method. It is a way of conducting long, highly detailed interviews with people about their life experiences, often in mult….

When I leave the theater I can always hear people talking about the character, and everyone always says, "You know, I know someone like her." And I a….

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX..

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they w….

People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose..

If a seperate personal Paradise exists for each of us mine must irreparably be planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars, by pe….

Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired..

The challenges should be familiar. They should have some relationship to the feelings - like, if a movie's about being demoralized at work, it should….

Being an American, what I've noticed is that we're in such a race. You wake up and you realize you're in the middle of a race, and some people are ru….

It's too easy to blame other people in football..

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them..

Various polls have indicated that approximately 10% of Americans (25 million people) have seen them at close range so that details of the structure o….

Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people..