What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.

One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?

Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.

He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.

Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.

Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.

It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.

What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.

In the afterlife you don't have to worry about looking for work.

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. Its about the big picture.

One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp.

From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes. Perhaps that explains why they figure in so much television and cinema. Their lives are lived in the midst of human drama.

Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not.

When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn't too rigorous or challenging.

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.

You can't start at the top.

I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!

Separating out banks and investment banks right now under Glass-Steagall would have very big implications to the liquidity and the capital markets and banks being able to perform necessary lending.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

I figured, 'If I ever get offered a chance to sign a deal, I'll only do it if I got to do it how I want.' So my contract is structured in such a way that I'm really protected.

Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food.

The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth.

Whoever I'm playing against, I go in and try to stop their best scorer and try to get myself going on the offensive end.

A partner to share the ups and downs with. Honor and strength, and knowing you're stronger together than apart.

In the fashion industry, everything goes retro except the prices.

I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.

I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.

I have this magpie instinct for the next glittering object. There are one or two things I know I can't write about, though: DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.

Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be.

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

So we take a lot of pride in that. It's really on us to turn this thing around. I think this last month we've done just that. We've pointed ourself in the direction that we want to be, and I think we're starting to head towards that. Right now we're in a nice rhythm.