When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.

You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.

When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.

I didn't feel like going any further in this scene with the boy. He was not a professional actor, and if I had pushed the scene any further it would have destroyed the tone of the movie.

Well, Fellini... there is always Fellini.

You see the world much better through a camera.

A default on our debts as a result of not meeting our obligations would be a disaster for the stock market, and Americans would see their retirement funds shrivel up.

It's not really like you have a thing like a supermodel anymore. It's more of a word than a real existence. I think, also, looking at it from a designer's point of view, at one point maybe they felt the stars took too much attention away from the clothes.

The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat.

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Medications almost always do it better if they're used in conjunction with other supports.

Good intentions are no substitute for obedience.

Never insult a writer. You may find yourself immortalized in ways you may not appreciate.

I saw a transvestite wearing a T-shirt that said 'Guess'.

People got very wimpy about 'Scarface' very quickly.

A family like a canoe must be steered or paddled or it wont take you where you want to go

I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.

I simply did not want my face to be my talent.

I do theater as much as possible, but it's very difficult to manage for me.

People often say, 'I thought you were much taller.' So, I don't know. Maybe it's the way I stand or something.

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that.

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

The dogged determination and patience of one person to do what is Right and Necessary may not always win the day or even be noticed but it will tip the balance just a little in the direction of good.

Graduation is a time of completion of finishing of an ending however it is also a time of celebration of achievement and a beginning for the new graduate.

I know, a lot of the films I've done, it's obvious I'm going to beat up six guys and just walk out the door. There's not a lot of motivating factors - it's just action for the sake of action.