Our founding fathers never intended that Congress be a career.
I like L. A. , but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.
A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.
I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.
I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.
If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.
It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.
Only the naive inflationist's could believe that government could enrich mankind through fiat money.
A terrible cold world of ice and death had replaced the living world we had always known. Outside there was only the deadly cold, the frozen vacuum of an ice age, life reduced to mineral crystals. [. . . ] I drove at great speed, as if escaping, pretending we could escape. Although I knew there was no escape from the ice, from the ever-diminishing remnant of time that encapsuled us.
Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.
The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.