It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
I don't like to be crazy on different levels all of the time.
I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?
I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.
I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.
What you need to know to direct a movie is [of] such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.
I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.
To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
When you've got the ball 65-70% of the time, it's a football death for the other team. . . It's death by football.
If you could use the Internet somehow to see how a Fiji sailor is doing, rather than having to read a text version of it somewhere a day later, that would be great.
Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much. " Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your little is worse than the worst of my much, I will keep on doing so.