The movies like "Star Wars," for example or "Lord Of The Rings," they work because it's a a mix of everything.
What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
In a word, the free Church in a free State has been the programme which led me to my first efforts, and which I continue to regard as just and true, reasonable and practical, after the studies of thirty years.
In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor.
European lotteries are the tax on fools.
I had very few skills. If I hadn't been a producer I'd been a failed actor. That would have been really disastrous.
Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.
Hundreds upon hundreds of news outlets - okay, thousands - are interested in following the happenings at the White House. Yet the number of news sources at the White House - people who know what's happening - is finite. Dozens maybe. With that imbalance hanging over the enterprise, it's hard for a group of reporters competing against one another to secure the upper hand.
Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish.