You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

With a little bit of luck, you'll never work!

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.

Men die but an idea does not.

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Thank heaven for little girls! For little girls get bigger every day. Thank heaven for little girls! They grow up in the most delightful way.

Coughing in the theater is not a repiratory ailment. It is criticism.

For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.

When I was growing up, it was the guys who were hardest at school who got the prettiest girls. It's a status thing.

A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.

If you are at Coca Cola the creative challenge is one of maintaining rather than creating a tremendous level of consumption for your products.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.

Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.

The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

I am interested in being in pictures that I would like to see.

When President Obama first unveiled his gun control proposals recommending a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and better background checks, there seemed to be momentum behind the effort. But then the proposals ran into a wall.

That's the sign of a good relationship, when you can pick up a phone and it doesn't matter when the last time you spoke was.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

I love producing. My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven for artists, for directors and for writers and actors to do what they do best and let them have final edit. I'd like to build something to that effect.

What I would do is a 10-minute short of some kind on video, and if it's good enough, you get it passed around town and just get some attention, so then they'll read what you have.

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.

Only Agatha Christie can write like Agatha Christie.

I want to be European, world and Olympic gold medallist.

The woman who gives birth to a child is like the banana tree that breaks under the weight of its fruit.

I am always working out, whether I am on vacation or at home. When in La Jolla, I like to surf, play tennis, and golf - but surfing is definitely my favorite.

People appreciate it when you take some time to think about who will be listening to your jokes.

Whatever it takes, the job of the director is to be the leader and to get your actors where they need to go. That's a philosophy that I have.

My first year of university, I ran around and signed up for these clubs, and I noticed they were all drama clubs: really lame, artsy things.

My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.